Hi!
> > > Well, it looks like the interactions with dm add quite a bit of
> > > complexity here.
> >
> > What about just fixing xfs (thou shall not write to disk when kernel
> > threads are frozen), and getting rid of blockdev freezing?
>
> Well, first I must admit you were absolutely right being suspicious with
> respect to this stuff.
(OTOH your patch found real bugs in suspend.c, so...)
> OTOH I have no idea _how_ we can tell xfs that the processes have been
> frozen. Should we introduce a global flag for that or something?
I guess XFS should just do all the writes from process context, and
refuse any writing when its threads are frozen... I actually still
believe it is doing the right thing, because you can't really write to
disk from timer.
Pavel
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