linux-kernel - Re: BUG: enabling psacct breaks fsfreeze

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Message-ID: <20121102104018.GG20752@pcnci.linuxbox.cz>
Date:	Fri, 2 Nov 2012 11:40:18 +0100
From:	Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@...uxbox.cz>
To:	Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@...uxbox.cz>
Subject: Re: BUG: enabling psacct breaks fsfreeze

> I saw this behavior (task-hang) when I tested the fsfreeze code. I was
> writing a little patch to replace fsfreeze's wait queue with a killable
> queue, in this way the user can do at least "kill -9", but since the
> behavior was the same before your patch I didn't send it. I don't know if we
> can break any previous behavior. The funny thing here is that it's like if
> fsfreeze freezes itself :)

I think freezing all tasks ain't that bad, my problem is it's not possible to
start fsfreeze -u to thaw filesystem..


> 
> Marco
> 

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