Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:54:36 +1100 | From | David Chinner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.19 5/5] fs: freeze_bdev with semaphore not mutex |
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On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:17:22PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Why not simply &~ PF_NOFREEZE on that particular process? Filesystems > are free to use threads/work queues/whatever, but refrigerator should > mean "no writes to filesystem" for them...
Freezing the filesytem is the way to tell the filesystem "no more writes to the filesytem".
Cheers,
Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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