On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Dave Chinner <da...@fromorbit.com> wrote: >> A way to query freeze state might be nice, I think, but yeah, it's >> racy, so you can't depend on it - but it might be useful in the "huh, >> IO is failing, what's going on? Oh, it's frozen, ok" scenario... > > So maybe we should just add the frozen state to /proc/self/mountinfo > or something similar, then people who think it matters can shoot > themselves in the foot all they want without us needing to care > about it.
Sorry if it's a basic question, but what is the difference between /proc/self/mountinfo and providing an ioctl call? > > Cheers, > > Dave. > -- > Dave Chinner > da...@fromorbit.com Regards, Florian
