Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:57:32 -0500 | From | Eric Sandeen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] Do not allow umounting of frozen filesystems |
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Al Viro wrote: ...
> IOW, I'd rather add two new ioctls (check if frozen/thaw), both by > bdev. On top of the first two patches in this set.
> Comments?
The check ioctls would be very very useful, IMHO. Many filesystem tools refuse to operate on a mounted filesystem, but in some cases it'd be safe to do readonly operations on a frozen, mounted fs.
-Eric
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