| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:30:53 +0100 From: Asdo <asdo@...ftmail.org> To: Asdo <asdo@...ftmail.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Filesystem freeze vs blockdevice snapshot Hello all, please excuse the silly question... What is the benefit of performing an ext4 fs freeze before taking a snapshot of the underlying block device with LVM2 ? Is the freeze step useful or I can go with the snapshot directly? And/or is there another use case for the freeze? Thank you -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Powered by blists - more mailing lists