Re: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes.

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:29:59PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Do you mean calling sys_sync() after the userspace has been frozen
> may not be sufficient?

No, that's definitly not enough.  You need to freeze_bdev to make sure
data is on disk in the place it's expected by the filesystem without
starting a log recovery.

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