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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes.
    Hi!

    On Tue 2006-10-24 18:06:33, 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.

    I believe log recovery is okay in this case.

    It can only happen when kernel dies during suspend or during
    resume... And log recovery seems okay in that case. We even guarantee
    that user did not loose any data -- by using sys_sync() after userland
    is stopped -- but let's not overdo over protections.
    Pavel

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