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Re: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes.

To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes.
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:06:33 +0100
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>, Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>, LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:29:59PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Do you mean calling sys_sync() after the userspace has been frozen
> may not be sufficient?

No, that's definitly not enough.  You need to freeze_bdev to make sure
data is on disk in the place it's expected by the filesystem without
starting a log recovery.


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