On Monday 01 March 2010 08:33:20 pm Jeffrey Metcalf wrote: > > If you put the filesystem of interest on its own partition, then > > ISTM you can mount -o remount,ro that one file system, and it should > > remain static during the backup. All data will still be available, > > though unmodifiable. Clearly, one would need to do something like > > an lsof to ensure that nobody is using it when the remount takes > > place. > > > > Mike > > Thanks Mike. Could be useful for my needs. Just curious. Would such a > mount -o remount,ro flush any dirty filesystem buffers like sync, or would > it discard them. > In my experience, a remount can be done on a running system, so I imagine that loss of data isn't something designed into that particular operation. I've done it successfully on each server in a running cluster of about 50 when I wanted to set it to noatime. --Russell -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
