Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:08:57 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes. |
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 04:20:31PM +0000, Oleg Verych wrote: > > Do you mean calling sys_sync() after the userspace has been frozen > > may not be sufficient? > > Please see > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=317479;msg=105;att=0> > > it's bottom of > <http://bugs.debian.org/317479> > > IMHO it's may be helpful.
It's not. It'sa step in the wrong direction. The only way to guarantee a filesystem (not just xfs, _any_ filesystem - xfs is just most sensitive) is to call the write_super_lockfs method.
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