Re: [PATCH 3/4] Do not allow umounting of frozen filesystems

[Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao]

Al Viro ãããæãããã:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:06:07PM +0900, Fernando Luis V?zquez Cao wrote:
>   
> > Instead of making umount users wait until the filesystem is
> > unfreezed return EBUSY, which is very convenient in HA
> > configurations.
> >
> > This could have been implemented at a lower level but it would
> > require considerable plumbing in functions such as release_mounts
> > which do not return errors.
> >     
>
>   
> > +	if (sb->s_bdev != NULL) {
> > +		mutex_lock(&sb->s_bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex);
> > +		if (sb->s_frozen != SB_UNFROZEN) {
> > +			mutex_unlock(&sb->s_bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex);
> > +			return -EBUSY;
> > +		}
> > +	}
> >     
>
> NAK.  First of all, it _partially_ breaks umount -l for no good reason.
> If the first fs on the mountpoint is frozen, we fail; if it's deeper
> we succeed just fine (and delay actual fs shutdown until the thaw).
>
> As far as I can see, the real problem is that fsthaw ioctl has braindead
> API; it takes some opened file on fs in question.  Why not do a bdev
> ioctl instead?  Then we could let umount go ahead just fine, leaving
> fs frozen (and not shut down until it thaws).  And whoever does thaw
> (via bdev ioctl) will automatically trigger the actual fs shutdown.
> Just with Christoph's pair of patches...
>   

I basically agree with you. The current API creates a lot of locking 
issues that could be tackled
more cleanly with the bdev ioctls you suggest.

> IOW, I'd rather add two new ioctls (check if frozen/thaw), both by
> bdev.  On top of the first two patches in this set.
>   

I am happy to see you would welcome a check ioctl.

If there is consensus on the bdev ioctl approach I could send patches.

Thanks,

Fernando
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