Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:17:00 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] lockfs - vfs bits |
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:30:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote: > > > > These are the generic lockfs bits. Basically it takes the XFS freezing > > statemachine into the VFS. It's all behind the kernel-doc documented > > freeze_bdev and thaw_bdev interfaces. > > Do we expect to see snapshotting patches for other filesystems arise as a > result of this?
Other filesystems already implement the write_super_lockfs and unlockfs methods and should just work. An earlier version of this patch is in SuSE's tree and I think they've tested it with ext3 and reiserfs. Similarly even earlier variants are in the 2.4 vendor trees. Those filesystem don't really use the state machine to avoid starting new transactions, so to get results as reliable as XFS they need soem more work.
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