Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes. | Date | Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:09:41 +0200 |
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On Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:06, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:29:59PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Do you mean calling sys_sync() after the userspace has been frozen > > may not be sufficient? > > No, that's definitly not enough. You need to freeze_bdev to make sure > data is on disk in the place it's expected by the filesystem without > starting a log recovery.
Thanks for the clarification.
Then it looks like we need the freezing of bdevs. Pavel?
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