On 30 August 2012 17:11, Aria Bamdad <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just curious, could this functionality be used somehow to allow for a
> **consistent** disk snapshot using flashcopy for a live Linux guest?  What
> I
> mean is that currently, we have to shutdown the guest, do the flashcopy and
> then restart the guest.  Is there a way we can tell the Linux guest to
> freeze, take a snapshot of the disks and then resume?
>

No. It's perfectly possible that the Linux guest is moved from one z/VM
LPAR to the other while it still has data in memory that's supposed to go
out to disk (and it will eventually do that from its new location).

Rob

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