[PATCH] xfs_metadump: manpage fix regarding frozen fs

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Mon Jul 15 21:16:52 CDT 2013


The xfs_metadump manpage states that metadump works
on a frozen filesystem; it does not.  In fact, there is
no way to detect a frozen filesystem, so we can't make it
work, either.

So just remove this from the manpage; unmounted or RO
mounted is what is enforced by xfs_metadump.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/man/man8/xfs_metadump.8 b/man/man8/xfs_metadump.8
index 26cea97..4fa1b1c 100644
--- a/man/man8/xfs_metadump.8
+++ b/man/man8/xfs_metadump.8
@@ -32,10 +32,8 @@ is \-, then the output is sent to stdout. This allows the output to be
 redirected to another program such as a compression application.
 .PP
 .B xfs_metadump
-should only be used to copy unmounted filesystems, read-only mounted
-filesystems, or frozen filesystems (see
-.BR xfs_freeze (8)).
-Otherwise, the generated dump could be inconsistent or corrupt.
+may only be used to copy unmounted filesystems, or read-only mounted
+filesystems.
 .PP
 .B xfs_metadump
 does not alter the source filesystem in any way. The



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