linux-kernel - Re: Back to the future.

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Date:	Fri, 4 May 2007 09:27:20 -0400
From:	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>
To:	David Greaves <david@...eaves.com>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, nigel@...el.suspend2.net,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Back to the future.

On May 04, 2007, at 03:52:03, David Greaves wrote:
> Kyle Moffett wrote:
>> On May 03, 2007, at 11:10:47, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>> What happens if you try to boot and filesystems are frozen from  
>>> previous run?
>>
>> If you're just doing a fresh boot then the filesystem is already  
>> clean due to the dm freeze and so it mounts up normally.  All you  
>> need to do then is have a little startup script which purges the  
>> saved image before you fsck or remount things read-write since  
>> either case means the image is no longer safe to resume.
>
> Wouldn't it be better if freeze wrote a freeze-ID to the fs and  
> returned it? This would naturally be kept in the image and a UUID  
> mismatch would be detectable - seems safer and more flexible than  
> 'a script'.
>
> "This isn't the freeze you're looking for, move along"

Possibly, but I was referring to the _current_ behavior of the device- 
mapper freezing.  While perhaps not ideal, it's currently very easily  
usable.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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