Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:16:56 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add timeout feature |
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 01:20:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > I don't think the changelogs actually explained why this feature is > being added? > > Which userspace tools are expected to send these ioctls? Something in > util-linux? dm-utils? Are patches to those packages planned?
Currently the only surspace using freeze and thaw is xfs_freeze from xfsprogs, which would work for various other filesystems that implement ->write_super_lockfs now instead of just XFS with patch 1.
The freeze stuff in this third patch isn't and won't be used by xfs_freeze and doesn't make all that much sense (and we already had a lot of previous discussion on this..)
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