Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:21:29 +1100 | | From | Dave Chinner <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH V4] Allow SysRq emergency thaw to thaw frozen filesystems |
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On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:48:29AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Eric Sandeen wrote: > > The timeout thaw originally proposed did not get merged, but > > perhaps something like this would be useful in emergencies. > > For example, freeze /path/to/mountpoint may freeze your > > root filesystem if you forgot that you had that unmounted. > > If you don't have console access, you're just logged in remotely, is > there a way to do an emergency unthaw from a shell command? ^^^^^^ That's a freeze, right? ;)
Anyway, I think you could use /proc/sysrq-trigger in that situation.
Cheers,
Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com
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