Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:24:22 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/5] fsfreeze: freeze_super and thaw_bdev don't play well together |
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:01:07AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:22:19AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > This breaks the "feature" that we can freeze a block device that doesn't > > have a filesystem mounted yet. For filesystems using get_sb_bdev that > > prevents a new filesystem to be mounted on them. > > > > I'm not sure it's a particularly useful feature, but it's been there > > since day 1 of the freeze support. The easiest way to not break it > > would be to keep the per-sb freeze count only for that case and only > > check it during mount. > > You mean the per-bdev freeze count, right? So freeze/thaw_bdev would > have to remain?
Yes.
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