| To: | Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] xfsprogs: allow xfs_freeze to work on non-xfs filesystems |
| From: | "Bill O'Donnell" <billodo@xxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:48:15 -0600 |
| Cc: | xfs mailing list <xfs@xxxxxxx> |
| In-reply-to: | <496E6FB4.8070300@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
| References: | <496E6FB4.8070300@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 05:05:24PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
| allow xfs_freeze to freeze "foreign" filesystems
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| Now that the freeze ioctl has been elevated to the VFS,
| let's let xfs_io and xfs_freeze freeze other filesystems
| as well - add the CMD_FOREIGN_OK flag to freeze & thaw.
|
| I think the worst that will happen on older kernels is that
| the command will fail with ENOSYS or EINVAL....
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| Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@xxxxxxx>
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