Re: XFS "lockfs" Functionality

[Nathan Straz <nstraz@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:21:34AM -0800, Browning, Jeff wrote:
> 1.     Flush all data in the local file system buffer cache to disk
> (effectively a synchronous sync); 
> 2.     Halt all pending I/O to the file system until unlockfs is
> issued. (If the file system is mounted hard, all processes attempting
> to access the file system simply hang for this period.) 

man xfs_freeze

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