On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 06:21:03PM +0200, Rob van der Heij wrote: > On 7/26/06, Mark Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >One point not mentioned yet, is that FLASHCOPY is an asynchronous process. > >You can start a FLASHCOPY operation and it *can* return an error status > >asynchronously. 90+% of the time this is not apparent, the request is made > >and the Shark goes happily on its way. However if the request that is > >queued within the Shark has to be terminated (Resource shortages, target > >volume errors etc.) then beware! > > Unless I am terribly misinformed, it *is* an atomic operation for the > operating system.
Doing it atomic is not enough. You need to put the filesystem into a coherent state first. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
