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Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:52:51 +0100
From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
To: Takashi Sato <t-sato@...jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, axboe@...nel.dk,
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Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add timeout feature
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:10:26AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I still disagree with this whole patch.
Same here - if you want a timeout, what stops you from implementing it in a
userspace process? If your concern is that the process might die without
thawing the filesystem, take a look at the userspace LVM/multipath code for
ideas - lock into memory, disable OOM killer, run from ramdisk etc.
In practice, those techniques seem to be good enough.
> call can hang and this would be theoretically useful is when the
> filesystem is already frozen by someone else, but this should be fixed
> by refusing to do the second freeze, as suggested in my comment to patch
> 1.
Similarly if a device-mapper device is involved, how should the following
sequence behave - A, B or C?
1. dmsetup suspend (freezes)
2. FIFREEZE
3. FITHAW
4. dmsetup resume (thaws)
A:
1 succeeds, freezes
2 succeeds, remains frozen
3 succeeds, remains frozen
4 succeeds, thaws
B:
1 succeeds, freezes
2 fails, remains frozen
3 shouldn't be called because 2 failed but if it is: succeeds, thaws
4 succeeds (already thawed, but still does the device-mapper parts)
C:
1 succeeds, freezes
2 fails, remains frozen
3 fails (because device-mapper owns the freeze/thaw), remains frozen
4 succeeds, thaws
Alasdair
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