From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] fsfreeze: moving from uniterruptible to killable
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:39:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANGUGtD9BNQO9pvO+yeKHc0qojk61fKYDgKm8kfWzu8pCk=YJw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130326211520.GF2082@quack.suse.cz>
2013/3/26 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>:
> On Sun 24-03-13 10:10:59, Marco Stornelli wrote:
>> When a fs is frozen, a process can hang because we wait in
>> uniterruptible state. We give the user the possibility to kill the process.
> Yes, but it needs slightly more work as you probably know... (bailing out
> properly when the signal arrives).
>
> Honza
>
Of course, indeed, it was only an RFC to start a discussion, not a
patch :) The point was: is this kind of change a behaviour that can
break user-space in some way? IMHO no, but I'd like to have a
discussion about that before to start coding. What do you think?
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-27 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-24 9:10 [RFC] fsfreeze: moving from uniterruptible to killable Marco Stornelli
2013-03-26 21:15 ` Jan Kara
2013-03-27 11:39 ` Marco Stornelli [this message]
2013-03-27 14:34 ` Jan Kara
2013-03-27 15:41 ` Marco Stornelli
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