Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2004-04-08 13:18:53 +0200 \ Andreas Semt: > Lars Ellenberg wrote: > > > > > >There are file systems that have their own suspend and resume > >hooks. One of them is XFS, which will only work with DRBD 0.7+ > >If you happen to use some of these, you can always do a clean > >snapshot by suspending the active (mounted) file system, > >creating the snapshot, and tell the fs to resume again. > > > >Eventually we will built in into the user space tools or into the > >module, or both, some hooks to guarantee a clean snapshot. > >This does not seem to be that difficult, but it will take some > >time to do it right, and somebody just has to do it :) > > > > That would be a big step forward for drbd, imho. The ability to make > consistent and clean snapshots in a HA environment seems to be a > important feature for some people ;-) Well, the thing is: *You can do so already*, by using LVM2 on top of DRBD. So implementing additional hacks and hooks is just very low priority. Lars Ellenberg