Re: synchronization of XFS

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:17:53PM +0200, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:

> I noticed as much. And guess what - it worked!

ok cool, that also confirms what people suspected isgoing on really is

i still wonder about grub using O_DIRECT though for another reason,
that is corruption/nasties when doing block access on a mounted fs

hch --- can you comment here perhaps?  would that be a dafer way to
go?

> That's nice. Oh well, nothing to worry about, it just means
> that if you don't have a seperate /boot your root partition
> will be frozen and unfrozen twice.

freezing a second time w/o much dirty data will be pretty quick and
painless

> Right. Well, what I have left to test is what happens if the root
> and/or /boot partition isn't xfs. I'll only try using ext3 though.

maybe hack the installer to check the fs-type then perhaps and do thr
freeze only if it's xfs using the ioctl's rather than calling out to
an external program

let me know if you want example code for that


  --cw