Hi Steve,
I wanted to confirm XFS commands are executed to normaly
on mounted device. So I tried to access to mounted device.
Now I see commands are no problem to executed on mounted
device.
Thanks a lot.
-nak
>
> I happened to be sitting next to another filesystem developer
> when I read this, and he remembered an old ext2 race condition.
> I think I understand what is happening - and how to fix it, the
> only problem is that fixing it will potentially be a major
> performance issue - so the question is, why do you need this to
> work? Would a solution which disallowed block access to the
> device when it was mounted be sufficient, or do you really
> want to look at metadata live via the block device. The
> xfsdump program does not need this, the only thing which does
> is running xfs_db on a live filesystem, but that is not really
> of use to anyone but developers.
>
> Steve
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