Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockfs patch for 2.6
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
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On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 09:00, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 04:33:46PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Here's the reworked patch I have, ignoring dm but converting the xfs-internal
> > interfaces that do freezing.  But without an interface change we still need
> > to do all the flushing a second time inside XFS which I absoutely dislike.
> > 
> > Let me think about how to do this nicer.
> 
> Okay, here's a new patch that basically moves all the XFS freezing
> infrastructure to the VFS, leavin only writing of the log record and some
> transaction count handing inside XFS.
> 
> I've given it some heavy testing with xfs_freeze, dm is still not updated.
> 
> P.S. this patch now kills 16 lines of kernel code summarized :)
> 

It looks good, I'll give it a try.

-chris


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