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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
