On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 12:59 +0100, Jakob Goldbach wrote: > > No need to freeze the filesystem while creating the snapshot to ensure a > consistent filesystem on the snapshot ?
I've been corrected about this before and maybe it will happen again, but a) there is no need to freeze the filesystem and b) probably when you mount the snapshot, the journal (which may contain transactions when the snapshot is taken) will be replayed and then everything should be good. > (xfs has a xfs_freeze function that does just this) Yeah. I don't know enough about xfs to understand why this is needed, but probably the inconsistency of an "open" xfs filesystem is more disastrous than an ext3 filesystem. b. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
