linux-ext4 - Re: support freeze operation like xfs

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Date:	Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:40:58 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Vitez Gabor <vitezg@...f.hu>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: support freeze operation like xfs_freeze

Vitez Gabor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It would be really great if ext4 supported an xfs_freeze like operation. 
> On xfs it spared me a lot of headaches when I was playing with unstable 
> kernel features.
> 
>   thanks
>     Gabor
>

Right now ext3 and ext4 -can- be frozen, but only via devicemapper,
because the call to freeze_bdev is only exposed via

<dm ioctl>
  dev_suspend
    do_suspend
      dm_suspend
        lock_fs
          freeze_bdev <-- generic, exported kernel function

on an lvm volume.  So, I think ext[34] are perfectly capable of being
frozen, there's just no generic userspace utility to point at a generic
block device to do that freezing.  xfs's collection of ioctls to do this
directly got grandfathered in, I guess.  :)

-Eric
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