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Re: synchronization of XFS

To: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: synchronization of XFS
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:24:19 -0700
Cc: "IKARASHI, Seiichi" <ikarashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 02:36:14PM +0200, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:

> Can I freeze the root ("/") ? (I need that possibility)

yes

> And what happens if I try to freeze a dir that's not it's own
> partition?

the partition will  be frozen

> Oh yes, I just remembered a thought from someone to modify GRUB to
> open using O_DIRECT as well - that might help.

that was probably me, however, i realise now it won't work either.
you need to convince the fs to flush all dirty data and metadata


  --cw


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