Re: [PATCH] vfs: return EOPNOTSUPP when ioctl_fsthaw() is not supported

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Dec 19 2016 - 05:25:19 EST


On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 06:57:27PM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote:
> An attempt to freeze a filesystem that does not support such operation is
> reported as EOPNOTSUPP to user. Running unfreeze to the same filesystem
> returns EINVAL. Later is a little misleading, users can mix that message
> with return value from unfreezing when filesystem is not frozen.

This is going to break gfs2 with it's odd ->that_super method.