Re: Back to the future.

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On May 03, 2007, at 11:10:47, Pavel Machek wrote:
How mature is freezing filesystems -- will it work on at least ext2/3 and vfat?

I'm pretty sure it works on ext2/3 and xfs and possibly others, I don't know either way about VFAT though. Essentially the "freeze" part involves telling the filesystem to sync all data, flush the journal, and mark the filesystem clean. The intent under dm/LVM was to allow you to make snapshots without having to fsck the just- created snapshot before you mounted it.

What happens if you try to boot and filesystems are frozen from previous run?

If you're just doing a fresh boot then the filesystem is already clean due to the dm freeze and so it mounts up normally. All you need to do then is have a little startup script which purges the saved image before you fsck or remount things read-write since either case means the image is no longer safe to resume.

If the kernel is later modified to purge all filesystem data (dcache/ pagecache) during snapshot and effectively remount and reopen all the files by path during restore then you could remove that requirement. You'd just need to make sure that the restore-from-disk scripts did an fsck or journal-restore before reloading the old kernel data.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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