Quiescent filesystems marked with EXT2_VALID_FS while still mounted?

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 tytso en MIT.EDU wrote:

> Nope, it never did that.
> 
> You could potentially do something like that, but it would mean that
> whenever you tried to write to the filesystem (including inode atime
> updates), all modifications would have to stall until the EXT2_VALID_FS
> bit was cleared.  It's doable, but it's not clear it's worth it.

How about marking EXT2_VALID_FS prior to suspend or HD spindown?

-d 

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