Hi,

Just a first thought. Is there a possibility to write a dummy value into
sb->s_bdev for btrfs super blocks. Thus it will not be NULL and
everything in do_emergency_remount() in fs/super.c will work as wanted.

Thanks,
Andreas


On 28.07.2012 15:41, Florian Albrechtskirchinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> During a SysRq emergency remount Btrfs mounts are not remounted. I tracked 
> the 
> issue down to this line in do_emergency_remount() in fs/super.c:
> if (sb->s_root && sb->s_bdev && (sb->s_flags & MS_BORN) &&
>       !(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
> s_bdev is NULL for Btrfs super blocks and subsequently do_remount_sb() is 
> never called. I couldn't think of a solution, besides resorting to an ugly 
> strcmp(sb->s_type->name, "btrfs"), without adding a field to struct 
> super_block 
> or similar changes.
> Thoughts?
>
>     Flo
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