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

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Message-ID: <5094D44E.8030808@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:22:38 +0100
From:	Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com>
To:	Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@...uxbox.cz>
CC:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: enabling psacct breaks fsfreeze

Il 02/11/2012 11:40, Nikola Ciprich ha scritto:
>> 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..
>
>

Yes, of course. It was only a general comment.

Marco
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