From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add timeout feature Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 02:16:21 -0400 Message-ID: <20080709061621.GA5260@infradead.org> References: <20080630212450t-sato@mail.jp.nec.com> <20080701081026.GB16691@infradead.org> <20080707110730.GG5643@ucw.cz> <20080708231026.GP11558@disturbed> <20080708232031.GE18195@elf.ucw.cz> <20080709005254.GQ11558@disturbed> <20080709010922.GE9957@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: tytso@mit.edu, pavel@suse.cz, hch@infradead.org, t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, mtk.manpages@googlemail.com To: Miklos Szeredi Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:57102 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751125AbYGIGQj (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2008 02:16:39 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:13:21AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > This would mean that freeze and thaw will have to be done on the same > file descriptor, but this isn't unreasonable to expect, is it? It is certainly not the current use case, where you run one command to freeze the filesystem and another one to unfreeze it.