Re: xfsdump safe?

[ivanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ivan Rayner)]

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Regarding xfsdump:
>
> The qlock functions seem to be dummied out (inside #ifdef HIDDEN), but
> it still seems to create threads in some circumstances, which probably need
> locking. Is it really safe to use?

I think you'll find that the linux version of xfsdump runs in single
threaded mode.  This is controlled by the 'miniroot' flag which is set to
true on Linux - the key bits are around line 604 in cmd/xfsdump/common/main.c.


Ivan

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