Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:10:41 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] ext3 freeze feature |
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:42:30PM +0900, Takashi Sato wrote: > Hi, > > >I am also wondering whether we should have system call(s) for these: > > > >On Jan 25, 2008 12:59 PM, Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com> wrote: > >>+ case EXT3_IOC_FREEZE: { > > > >>+ case EXT3_IOC_THAW: { > > > >And just convert XFS to use them too? > > I think it is reasonable to implement it as the generic system call, as you > said. > Does XFS folks think so?
Given that XFS has implemented the ioctls for such a long time it might make more sense to simply move the ioctl implementation to fs/ioctl.c so it applies to all filesystem. No need to add a new syscall when the equivalent-functionality ioctls have to be supported forever anyway.
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