[PATCH] xfsprogs: allow xfs_freeze to work on non-xfs filesystems
Bill O'Donnell
billodo at sgi.com
Thu Jan 15 04:48:15 CST 2009
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 05:05:24PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
| allow xfs_freeze to freeze "foreign" filesystems
|
| 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....
|
| Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net>
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Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo at sgi.com>
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