linux-ext4 - Re: [BUG] ext3: cannot unfreeze a filesystem due to a deadlock

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Date:	Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:10:07 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@...il.com>,
	Masayoshi MIZUMA <m.mizuma@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] ext3: cannot unfreeze a filesystem due to a deadlock

On 9/7/11 11:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:45:34PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>>> Can you add this testcase to xfstests?
>>
>> Christoph,
>>
>> Isn't that just a matter of extending test 068 to ext4
> 
> If you have recent enough xfsprogs that allow the freeze command
> for foreign filesystems that might work. 

where "recent enough" is since Tue Feb 10 14:41:51 2009 -0600

I say go for it :)

Could always add a quick helper to make sure the xfs_io command
doesn't fail on freeze, and _notrun if it does.

-Eric

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