[dm-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add timeout feature
Miklos Szeredi
miklos at szeredi.hu
Wed Jul 9 08:11:01 UTC 2008
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > The argument against Miklos' version is that there may be multiple
> > > commands to execute while the fs is frozen.
> >
> > Which is what a shell is for ;)
>
> Yeah, weĺl, with your method I ca't tell a user to:
>
> # xfs_freeze -f /mntpt
> # xfs_db -r -c 'sb 0' -c 'p rootino' /dev/foo
> 128
> # xfs_db -r -c 'ino 128' -c 'p core.format' /dev/foo
> core.format = 2 (extents)
> # xfs_db .....
> .....
> # xfs_freeze -u /mntpt
>
> i.e. using the freeze to force all metadata to disk and
> prevent it from changing while doing interactive debugging
> of some problem.
# run_freeze /mntpt /bin/bash
# ...
# ^D
It's the same, no?
Miklos
More information about the dm-devel
mailing list