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Currently, ext3 in mainline Linux doesn't have the freeze feature which suspends write requests. So, we cannot take a backup which keeps the filesystem's consistency with the storage device's features (snapshot and replication) while it is mounted. In many case, a commercial filesystem (e.g. VxFS) has the freeze feature and it would be used to get the consistent backup. If Linux's standard filesystem ext3 has the freeze feature, we can do it without a commercial filesystem. So I have implemented the ioctls of the freeze feature. I think we can take the consistent backup with the following steps. 1. Freeze the filesystem with the freeze ioctl. 2. Separate the replication volume or create the snapshot with the storage device's feature. 3. Unfreeze the filesystem with the unfreeze ioctl. 4. Take the backup from the separated replication volume or the snapshot. This patch: VFS: Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void" to "int" so that they can return an error. Rename write_super_lockfs and unlockfs of the super block operation freeze_fs and unfreeze_fs to avoid a confusion. ext3, ext4, xfs, gfs2, jfs: Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void" to "int" so that write_super_lockfs returns an error if needed, and unlockfs always returns 0. reiserfs: Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void" to "int" so that they always return 0 (success) to keep a current behavior. Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Masayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com> Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1.3 KiB
C
30 lines
1.3 KiB
C
/*
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* Copyright (c) 2000-2001,2005 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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* All Rights Reserved.
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*
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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* published by the Free Software Foundation.
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*
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* This program is distributed in the hope that it would be useful,
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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* GNU General Public License for more details.
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*
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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* along with this program; if not, write the Free Software Foundation,
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* Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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*/
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#ifndef __XFS_FSOPS_H__
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#define __XFS_FSOPS_H__
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extern int xfs_fs_geometry(xfs_mount_t *mp, xfs_fsop_geom_t *geo, int nversion);
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extern int xfs_growfs_data(xfs_mount_t *mp, xfs_growfs_data_t *in);
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extern int xfs_growfs_log(xfs_mount_t *mp, xfs_growfs_log_t *in);
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extern int xfs_fs_counts(xfs_mount_t *mp, xfs_fsop_counts_t *cnt);
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extern int xfs_reserve_blocks(xfs_mount_t *mp, __uint64_t *inval,
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xfs_fsop_resblks_t *outval);
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extern int xfs_fs_goingdown(xfs_mount_t *mp, __uint32_t inflags);
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extern int xfs_fs_log_dummy(xfs_mount_t *mp);
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#endif /* __XFS_FSOPS_H__ */
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