Prev: [PATCH] ieee1394: remove unused variables
Next: drivers:tmp.c Fix warning: variable 'rc' set but not used
From: Dave Chinner on 14 Jun 2010 20:10
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:22:19AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This breaks the "feature" that we can freeze a block device that doesn't
> have a filesystem mounted yet. For filesystems using get_sb_bdev that
> prevents a new filesystem to be mounted on them.
>
> I'm not sure it's a particularly useful feature, but it's been there
> since day 1 of the freeze support. The easiest way to not break it
> would be to keep the per-sb freeze count only for that case and only
> check it during mount.

You mean the per-bdev freeze count, right? So freeze/thaw_bdev would
have to remain?

Cheers,

Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david(a)fromorbit.com
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
 | 
Pages: 1
Prev: [PATCH] ieee1394: remove unused variables
Next: drivers:tmp.c Fix warning: variable 'rc' set but not used