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On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:22:56 +0200 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:13:21AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > This would mean that freeze and thaw will have to be done on the > > > same file descriptor, but this isn't unreasonable to expect, is > > > it? > > > > It is certainly not the current use case, where you run one command > > to freeze the filesystem and another one to unfreeze it. > > So instead of > > freeze_fs mountpoint > backup-command > unfreeze_fs mountpoint > > the user would have do to > > run_freezed mountpoint backup-command > > I find the second one nicer, regardless of any reliability issues. nah he needs to do make_snapshot ; backup-command ; unref_snapshot. freezing isn't the right solution for the backup problem ;) -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org | ||||||||||||
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