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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 11:47:25 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> To: Syed Imtiaz <sihussain2@...il.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is ext2 freezable? On 6/5/15 6:23 AM, Syed Imtiaz wrote: > Dexuan Cui <decui <at> microsoft.com> writes: >> Hi Ted, >> Thanks very much for the clarification! >> >> And thanks a lot for implementing this -- I've seen the patches you > sent out >> several hours ago. >> >> IMO it's useful to have such compatibility, e.g., >> Hyper-V guest has a fsfreeze-based feature to back up the data; the > feature >> works fine for ext4 partition, but Ubuntu's installer can create /boot >> of ext2 partition by default and hence the feature can't work: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1362574 >> >> I believe the bug will go away after Ubuntu integrates your patches. >> >> Thanks! > > > Hi Theodore, > CAn you please tell me where can i find these patches. I am unable to > locate it. or the steps the install it ? > Do we have to install it every system that doesnt support fsfreeze in > the ext2 fs. To be clear, the patches were only for ext2-mounted-with-ext4.ko. The native ext2 driver freezes w/o any problem. The upstream commit is here: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bb04457 and has been fixed upstream since kernel v3.18 -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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