On Friday, 6 July 2007 00:00, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 
> > The syncing of filesystems from within the freezer is generally not needed.
> > Change freeze_processes() so that it doesn't execute sys_sync() and make the
> > suspend and hibernation code path sync filesystems independently of the 
> > freezer.
> 
> Yes, we can do that, but ... why?

I think that sync and the freezer are different things and shouldn't be mixed in
such a way as they are now.

> Does it actually fix FUSE?

It should prevent the freezer from deadlocking.

> Miklos claims sync is nop on FUSE...? 

In that case there shouldn't be any deadlock, but a freezer failure. :-)

Greetings,
Rafael


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