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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] lockfs - vfs bits
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
>  These are the generic lockfs bits.  Basically it takes the XFS freezing
>  statemachine into the VFS.  It's all behind the kernel-doc documented
>  freeze_bdev and thaw_bdev interfaces.

Do we expect to see snapshotting patches for other filesystems arise as a
result of this?