On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Mr Stephen Yum <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If I want to make a snapshot of an iscsi volume while there's a transfer 
> going on, is there a way to detect this and either 1) not include the file 
> being transferred, or 2) wait until the transfer is finished before making 
> the snapshot?
>
> If I understand correctly, this is what Microsoft's VSS is supposed to do. Am 
> I right?

VSS does item (2) of your list above: it temporarily prevents new I/O
from starting, waits for in-flight ops to complete, and then handles
control over to snapshot party.

Regards,
Andrey

>
> Right now, when there is a transfer going on while making the snapshot, I 
> always end up with a corrupt file (understandably so, since the file transfer 
> is unfinished).
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