On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 09:58:30PM -0300, Luciano ES wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 10:44:51 +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote: > > > > xfs_copy must only be used an unmounted filesystem (or read-only, > > frozen, etc), so, unless you want to freeze/unmount your FS everytime > > you do a xfs_copy, then xfs_copy is not what you are looking for > > You say that as if it were a bad thing. What is the problem with > freezing the file system every time I do an xfs_copy? I would likely > do that once a month, perhaps once a week at most, so why not? What > is inherently bad about freezing the file system for a few minutes? On some systems it would not be desirable to freeze a filesystem for even a few minutes. An active database server might be one example. Your use case may be totally fine with freezing. --keith -- kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
