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Message-ID: <20080126051724.GM155407@sgi.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:17:24 +1100 From: David Chinner <dgc@....com> To: Takashi Sato <t-sato@...jp.nec.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> Subject: Re: [RFC] ext3 freeze feature On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:42:30PM +0900, Takashi Sato wrote: > >I am also wondering whether we should have system call(s) for these: > > > >On Jan 25, 2008 12:59 PM, Takashi Sato <t-sato@...jp.nec.com> wrote: > >>+ case EXT3_IOC_FREEZE: { > > > >>+ case EXT3_IOC_THAW: { > > > >And just convert XFS to use them too? > > I think it is reasonable to implement it as the generic system call, as you > said. Does XFS folks think so? Sure. Note that we can't immediately remove the XFS ioctls otherwise we'd break userspace utilities that use them.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - 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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