Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:37:37 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes. |
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Hi!
> > Do you mean calling sys_sync() after the userspace has been frozen > > may not be sufficient? > > In most cases it probably is, but sys_sync() doesn't provide any > guarantees that the filesystem is not being used or written to after > it completes. Given that every so often I hear about an XFS filesystem > that was corrupted by suspend, I don't think this is sufficient...
Userspace is frozen. There's noone that can write to the XFS filesystem.
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