Can you docuument what administrator must not do for freezing to be safe? What if so much dirty data accumulates on frozen filesystem that there's not enough memory for the unfreeze tool? Pavel -- (e
Eric Sandeen wrote: Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 09:36:04AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 05:52:35PM +0900, Takashi Sato wrote: I th
That is not supposed to happen. That's why write blocks early on a frozen filesystem (the shared mmap write path is currently missing the check, but that's a rather small patch)
Can you docuument what administrator must not do for freezing to be safe? What if so much dirty data accumulates on frozen filesystem that there's not enough memory for the unfreeze tool? Pavel -- (e
Eric Sandeen wrote: Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 09:36:04AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 05:52:35PM +0900, Takashi Sato wrote: I th
That is not supposed to happen. That's why write blocks early on a frozen filesystem (the shared mmap write path is currently missing the check, but that's a rather small patch)
The timeout feature is added to "freeze ioctl" to solve a deadlock when the freezer accesses a frozen filesystem. And new ioctl to reset the timeout period is added to extend the timeout period. For