Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264068AbUDQXaa (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:30:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264074AbUDQXaa (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:30:30 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:31380 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264068AbUDQXa3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:30:29 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 16:30:07 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] lockfs - vfs bits Message-Id: <20040417163007.67d23c10.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040417220632.GA2573@lst.de> References: <20040417220632.GA2573@lst.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 565 Lines: 14 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > These are the generic lockfs bits. Basically it takes the XFS freezing > statemachine into the VFS. It's all behind the kernel-doc documented > freeze_bdev and thaw_bdev interfaces. Do we expect to see snapshotting patches for other filesystems arise as a result of this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/