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Message-ID: <20080208145911.GA4257@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:59:11 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
Cc:	Takashi Sato <t-sato@...jp.nec.com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ext3 freeze feature

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:26:57AM -0500, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> You may as well make the common ioctl the same as the XFS version,
> both by number and parameters, so that applications which already
> understand the XFS ioctl will work on other filesystems.

Yes.  In facy you should be able to lift the implementations of
XFS_IOC_FREEZE and XFS_IOC_THAW to generic code, there's nothing
XFS-specific in there.

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