Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add timeout feature
From: Pavel Machek <hidden>
Date: 2008-07-07 11:07:31
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dm-devel, linux-fsdevel, linux-xfs, lkml
From: Pavel Machek <hidden>
Date: 2008-07-07 11:07:31
Also in:
dm-devel, linux-fsdevel, linux-xfs, lkml
Hi!
I still disagree with this whole patch. There is not reason to let the freeze request timeout - an auto-unfreezing will only confuse the hell out of the caller. The only reason where the current XFS freeze call can hang and this would be theoretically useful is when the
What happens when someone dirties so much data that vm swaps out whatever process that frozen the filesystem? I though that was why the timeout was there... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html