linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs: print a message when freezing/unfreezing filesystems

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Date:	Tue, 13 May 2014 21:06:35 +0200
From:	Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@...hat.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Eric Sandeen <esandeen@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs: print a message when freezing/unfreezing
 filesystems

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:00:21PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 20:53 +0200, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> > This is the same code which you can find at the end of the function.
> > I added the label so that I can write freeze printk only once.
> 
> Yes, but for a read-only filesystem is the message useful?
> 

I see no harm in printing it and it seems more correct given that
s_writers.frozen changed, but I'm fine either way.

btw, I just noticed a copy-pasto - the same message for freezing and
unfreezing found its way into the patch. sigh.
-- 
Mateusz Guzik
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