[PATCH] xfs_metadump: manpage fix regarding frozen fs

Ben Myers bpm at sgi.com
Mon Jul 22 16:22:51 CDT 2013


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 07:34:57PM -0400, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On Jul 19, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Ben Myers <bpm at sgi.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hey Eric,
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 09:16:52PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> 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>
> > 
> > I gave this a try and it *seemed* to work fine on a frozen filesystem.
> > Can you provide a bit of detail about why xfs_metadump doesn't work on
> > frozen filesystems?  What am I missing?
> > 
> 
> Hum, when I tried it it didn't work.  I can retest, but AFAIK there is no way to detect a frozen fs in the first place, so how could it work?

Gah.  As we discussed on IRC, I was wrong.  So, so wrong.

Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm at sgi.com>

Applied.



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