Re: How To Tell If FS Is Frozen?

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 12:01, Danny Cox wrote:
> /me comes out from the lurking rock:
> 
>       Is there a way to tell from user space if an XFS fs is frozen or not?
> 
>       I've checked xfs_db, xfs_info, and a few others, with no success.
> 
>       Failing a way to tell, would it hurt anything to thaw a fs that's NOT
> frozen (xfs_freeze -u)?
> 
>       Thanks!
> 
> /me climbs back under the lurking rock
> 

There is no real way to tell - except you cannot change the filesystem.
Two unfreezes should not cause problems though.

Steve

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