[Samba] LVM + xfs + Shadow copy

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Sat Apr 19 15:56:08 GMT 2008


On 4/19/2008, David Disseldorp (ddiss at sgi.com) wrote:
> Running xfs_freeze -f before the snapshot is taken is very important,
> as it ensures the filesystem will not be modified while the snapshot
> is taken. Snapshots may be corrupted if the filesystem is not
> frozen.

Hmmm...

Is there an equivalent for reiserfs? I've never done that - although I 
do stop all mail services before snapshotting (those are the only 
services that modify the filesystem anyway), and never had a problem 
(knock on wood)...

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Best regards,

Charles


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