[dm-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add timeout feature

Mon Sep 29 14:13:26 UTC 2008

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 05:52:35PM +0900, Takashi Sato wrote:
> I think that your concern is that the freezer cannot recognize the occurrence
> of a timeout and it continues the backup process and the backup data is
> corrupted finally.

What timeout should happen?  the freeze ioctl must not return until the
filesystem is a clean state and all writes are blocked.