Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757556AbZABJru (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 04:47:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754514AbZABJrj (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 04:47:39 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:48157 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750775AbZABJri (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 04:47:38 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 04:47:30 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Eric Sandeen Cc: Takashi Sato , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "dm-devel@redhat.com" , "viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk" , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" , "xfs@oss.sgi.com" , "mtk.manpages@googlemail.com" , "axboe@kernel.dk" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] freeze feature ver 1.14 Message-ID: <20090102094730.GA17841@infradead.org> References: <20081027215811t-sato@mail.jp.nec.com> <495DA488.7080702@sandeen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <495DA488.7080702@sandeen.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 799 Lines: 17 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? -- 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/