Re: [PATCH 3/5] fsfreeze: freeze_super and thaw_bdev don't playwell together

[Dave Chinner]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:22:19AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This breaks the "feature" that we can freeze a block device that doesn't
> have a filesystem mounted yet.  For filesystems using get_sb_bdev that
> prevents a new filesystem to be mounted on them.
>
> I'm not sure it's a particularly useful feature, but it's been there
> since day 1 of the freeze support.  The easiest way to not break it
> would be to keep the per-sb freeze count only for that case and only
> check it during mount.

You mean the per-bdev freeze count, right? So freeze/thaw_bdev would
have to remain?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/