From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add timeout feature Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:35:25 -0400 Message-ID: <35472.1222432525@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <20080908205337t-sato@mail.jp.nec.com> <20080908171119.GB22521@infradead.org> <48DBFD42.6030307@redhat.com> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1342194515==" Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, mtk.manpages@googlemail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, Christoph Hellwig , dm-devel@redhat.com, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Ric Wheeler , Oleg Nesterov To: Takashi Sato Return-path: In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:52:35 +0900." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org --===============1342194515== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1222432525_7097P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --==_Exmh_1222432525_7097P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:52:35 +0900, Takashi Sato said: (Sorry, am reading the threads out of temporal sequence....) > I think that your concern is that the freezer cannot recognize the occurrence > of a timeout and it continues the backup process and the backup data is > corrupted finally. > If the freezer can recognize it by the unfreeze ioctl's errono, will your concern > be solved? > If so, I will implement it. That would also address my concerns about merging patches 8 and 10 of the other patch series (because patch 10 wouldn't be needed then)... --==_Exmh_1222432525_7097P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFI3NcNcC3lWbTT17ARAlfSAJ9koC6IkAWpTwgQQzzxs0CHDfWf6ACgzm8C gDUF+0x2+mjqNZBumGOhqOA= =x5uP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1222432525_7097P-- --===============1342194515== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --===============1342194515==--