linux-ext4 - Re: support freeze operation like xfs

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Message-ID: <20070129095744.GB32517@swszl.szkp.uni-miskolc.hu>
Date:	Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:57:44 +0100
From:	Vitez Gabor <vitezg@...f.hu>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: support freeze operation like xfs_freeze

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:10:13PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> The question really is what are the legimate uses of such a facility
> where you wouldn't be better off taking a snapshot and then doing the
> backup dump on the snapshot?  The real issue is that we can't take
> snapshots on plain block devices, but that might be the better problem
> to solve....

I personnaly use xfs_freeze to get a bit of extra protection from filesystem
corruption would suspend-to-disk or suspend to ram go wrong. Read-only
remount is not an option because X is running, etc..


   Gabor
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