[dm-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] freeze feature ver 1.14

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Fri Jan 2 09:47:30 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 11:22:16PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> In lieu of the timeout feature which was originally proposed, how
> about access to an emergency un-freeze via magic sysrq, maybe
> piggy-backed on emergency sync... something like this (not
> tested or even built yet...), would this be a good compromise to
> help save people from frozen roots?

Looks sane to me.  But for that we'd need to get the generic freeze bits
in first.  Andrews, as they are in 2.6.28-rc2 do you plan to send them?

Any chance for a general -mm merge plan, btw?




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