Bug#694624: PATCH freezes under lying (root)

2012-12-07 Thread Pat Emblen
Hi, here's version 2. I read the kernel patch info , but I'm mostly running off http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/modify.en.html Thanks for your help. Pat Description: Updates to the man page to more accurately describe the behaviour of the program. Forwarded: not-needed Bug-Debi

Bug#694624: freezes under lying (root) - patch

2012-12-05 Thread Pat Emblen
A patch for the man page is (hopefully) attached. I'll warn you that this is the first time I've edited a man page or generated a patch, so it could be wrong / incomplete. By the way, I think you may have misinterpreted my tone in previous comments, I was trying to make a strong case for the pro

Bug#694624: /usr/sbin/xfs_freeze: freezes under lying (root)

2012-12-03 Thread Pat Emblen
m > with the userspace command. It may also be a good idea to point out in the man page that you should be extremely careful running this if you are not logged in interactively, even a disconnected ssh session will prevent you running xfs_freeze -u to manually unfreeze the root filesystem. Than

Bug#694624: /usr/sbin/xfs_freeze: freezes under lying (root)

2012-12-02 Thread Pat Emblen
Well it's your call, but I'll make my case for changing it. - I think it is very dangerous default behaviour, particularly in scripts as it can prevent the possibility of logging in to unfreeze a frozen root. - The docs all strongly imply that it operates on mountpoints, so surely not many peop