On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Linda Walsh <xfs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> So quiesce system is typically:
>> - quiesce apps (many enterprise apps provide a API call for this)
>
> ----
> Can you name 1 on linux that does?
>
> I can't think of any -- sendmail, imap, samba, squid, syslog...
Commercial - Oracle, DB2 (from IBM)
opensource -
sendmail has a quiesce signal handler, but I've never used it
see sendmail.h
extern SIGFUNC_DECL quiesce __P((int));
Postgres and mysql fake it I think, You "quiesce" them by having
them do a dump of the database, then the backup picks up the dump.
The key thing is knowing the right word to google for, and the right
word is quiesce.
Greg
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