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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:34:42 +0500
From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
To: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: btrfs freeze/thaw when using with LVM2
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:55:49 +0000
Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk> wrote:

> > This is strange considering that I wanted a consistent snapshot of=20
> > entire btrfs filesystem at volume level.
> >=20
> > Is there a way to achive this? or btrfs just cannot provide?
>=20
>    No, there's no way to manage it with the current btrfs code.

Why not. fsfreeze, dd to a file (optionally with compression), unfreeze.

--=20
With respect,
Roman

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