On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:10:13PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > The question really is what are the legimate uses of such a facility > where you wouldn't be better off taking a snapshot and then doing the > backup dump on the snapshot? The real issue is that we can't take > snapshots on plain block devices, but that might be the better problem > to solve.... I personnaly use xfs_freeze to get a bit of extra protection from filesystem corruption would suspend-to-disk or suspend to ram go wrong. Read-only remount is not an option because X is running, etc.. Gabor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
