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Submitted by oradebug on Thu, 2015-05-14 17:17

fsfreeze in Linux

Submitted by alexgorbachev on Thu, 2015-05-14 17:17

The fsfreeze command, is used to suspend and resume access to a file system. This allows consistent snapshots to be taken of the filesystem. fsfreeze supports Ext3/4, ReiserFS, JFS and XFS.

A filesystem can be frozen using following command:

#cccccc;line-height: 1.4"># /sbin/fsfreeze -f /data

Now if you are writing to this filesystem, the process/command will be stuck. For example, following command will be stuck in D (UNINTERUPTEBLE_SLEEP) state:

#cccccc;line-height: 1.4"># echo “testing” > /data/file

Only after the filesystem is unfreezed using the following command, can it continue:

Submitted by jeremy.schneider on Thu, 2015-05-14 17:17