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Re: Snapshot in XFS

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Snapshot in XFS
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:14:17 -0700
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On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:14:36PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> Presumably then you'd wait about as long for the sync to return :)

Except that it would force the write-out of dirty buffers immediately
and not prevent new IO's from being submitted during this time.

The idea is that (depending on access pattern) there would be less to
write out when the actual freeze occurs.


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