On Sun, 09.04.17 10:11, Michael Chapman (m...@very.puzzling.org) wrote: > Don't forget, they've provided an interface for software to use if it needs > more than the guarantees provided by sync. Informally speaking, the FIFREEZE > ioctl is intended to place a filesystem into a "fully consistent" state, not > just a "fully recoverable" state. (Formally it's all a bit hazy: POSIX > really doesn't guarantee anything with sync.)
FIFREEZE does considerably more than what you suggest: it also pauses all further changes until FITHAW is called. And that's semantics we really cannot have. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
