[Tux3] Generic filesystem freeze
Daniel Phillips
phillips at phunq.net
Mon Jan 12 01:11:57 PST 2009
On Sunday 11 January 2009 23:57, Michael Keulkeul wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I don't know if you already know, but generic filesystem freeze interface is
> being add to linux kernel, check linux 2.6.29-rc1 changelog for more info.
>
> Best regards
>
> Michael B.
We will certainly support it, but note my skepticism about the value
of it. It certainly fails to gaurantee consistency between filesystem
and application state, and it does introduce deadlock risk, so I am not
sure what it is for. Please enlighten me :-)
Regards,
Daniel
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