Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:30:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:30:26 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:44559 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:30:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:29:03 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alexander Viro , Andrea Arcangeli , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. Message-ID: <20010427162903.A12942@gruyere.muc.suse.de> In-Reply-To:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:08:25PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:08:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Note that I think all these arguments are fairly bogus. Doing things like > "dump" on a live filesystem is stupid and dangerous (in my opinion it is > stupid and dangerous to use "dump" at _all_, but that's a whole 'nother > discussion in itself), and there really are no valid uses for opening a > block device that is already mounted. More importantly, I don't think > anybody actually does. You can use LVM snapshot volumes to do it safely. -Andi - 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/