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From: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Subject: Re: RBD Backup
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:23:00 +0100
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Hi Josh,

Am 22.11.2012 22:08, schrieb Josh Durgin:

>> This way you have a pretty consistent snapshot.
>
> You can get an entirely consistent snapshot using xfs_freeze to
> stop I/O to the fs until you thaw it. It's done at the vfs level
> these days, so it works on all filesystems.

Great thing we even use XFS ;-) but when i do
xfs_freeze -f /

it just hangs and i can't do anything until i reset the whole VM.

Stefan