--On 10/03/00 21:13:04 +0200 Daniel Phillips
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Mason wrote:
>> Heinz Mauelshagen and I have come up with an API for LVM to use
>> for creating consistent snapshots. The idea is to block FS modifications
>> while the snapshot is being created, and to give the FS the chance to
>> flush everything (including all pending transactions) to disk before
>> LVM starts doing copy on write.
> [...]
>
>
> What is the thinking behind having a sync_super sandwich? I've always
> wondered about that.
>
For filesystems that don't have a write_super_lockfs call back, I wanted to
make fsync_dev_lockfs == fsync_dev.
-chris
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