Re: [PATCH V4] Allow SysRq emergency thaw to thaw frozen filesystems

From: Jamie Lokier
Date: Tue Feb 03 2009 - 06:48:51 EST


Eric Sandeen wrote:
> The timeout thaw originally proposed did not get merged, but
> perhaps something like this would be useful in emergencies.
>
> For example, freeze /path/to/mountpoint may freeze your
> root filesystem if you forgot that you had that unmounted.

If you don't have console access, you're just logged in remotely, is
there a way to do an emergency unthaw from a shell command?

-- Jamie
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