On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 07:54:16AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 02:33:17PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > On 1/8/15 2:18 PM, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 01:54:20PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > >> On 1/8/15 12:10 PM, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > >>> This patch add an ioctl to shutdown f2fs, which stops all the further 
> > >>> block
> > >>> writes after this point.
> > >>
> > >> would it make sense to just re-use the xfs ioctl nr, if the semantics are
> > >> the same?
> > > 
> > > The semantics are not same for now.
> > > In order to reuse xfs ioctl, it needs to support options for flushing 
> > > logs.
> > 
> > the xfs iotl has 3 behaviors optional:
> > 
> > #define XFS_FSOP_GOING_FLAGS_DEFAULT            0x0     /* going down */
> > #define XFS_FSOP_GOING_FLAGS_LOGFLUSH           0x1     /* flush log but 
> > not data */
> > #define XFS_FSOP_GOING_FLAGS_NOLOGFLUSH         0x2     /* don't flush log 
> > nor data */
> > 
> > if f2fs currently supports a subset, you could just -EOPNOTSUPP on the 
> > others.
> 
> No, just do a default shutdown operation if the semantics cannot be
> supported.
> 
>       - XFS_FSOP_GOING_FLAGS_DEFAULT ==
>               consistent on disk before shutdown
>                       + implemented by freeze/thaw/shutdown sequence
>       - XFS_FSOP_GOING_FLAGS_LOGFLUSH ==
>               consistent journal on disk before shutdown
>                       + implemented by journal flush/shutdown sequence
>       - XFS_FSOP_GOING_FLAGS_NOLOGFLUSH ==
>               nothing consistent on disk before shutdown
>                       + just a shutdown call.
> 
> f2fs can at least support XFS_FSOP_GOING_FLAGS_DEFAULT and
> XFS_FSOP_GOING_FLAGS_NOLOGFLUSH....
> 
> > If the semantics are completely different, maybe it shouldn't share the
> > name at all.  ;)
> 
> The semantics are quite clear and generic - when you look at what
> they actually mean rather than looking at the implementation.
> There's no need for new ioctls here.

I'll check it out.
Thank you, Dave and Eric. :)

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> da...@fromorbit.com

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