On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Greg Freemyer <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:34 PM, rohit vashist
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I went through the code of iostat.In the ninth field it gives the count
> of
> > number of I/O,but it goes zero but it can be thought.
> > Can u specify the grounds how hard it would to be suspend all the I/O
> > currently on the device.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> I'm confused.  You only need to suspend all write activity per your
> first post not all I/O, right?
>
> Are you trying to suspend write activity to the filesystem, or to the
> underlying block device (ie. hdd/dm/md devices)?
>

I just need to stop all the write operations on file system i.e it can be
deviated to the request queue for a while though reads can be allowed .


>
> In a previous thread you asked about the filesystem block device
> freeze support and seemed unhappy that it only suspended writes to the
> block device, but left the filesystem writable via temporarily holding
> data in a write cache.
>

Sorry but i think that was not my thread.


> But in the above you ask about how to suspend writes to the block
> device, and you already know how to do that.  At least writes
> initiated by a filesystem.
>
> Please explain with more clarity where you need to suspend writes and
> why a block device freeze is not adequate.
>

See i need to suspend all writes on the file system for a moment.But i can
allow all the reads to continue.That's all i need for now.

>
> Is the problem that whatever filesystem you are working with does not
> support block device freeze?
>
> Greg
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