Re: get filename->inode mappings in bulk for a live fs?

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Linda Walsh <xfs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> So quiesce system is typically:
>>    - quiesce apps (many enterprise apps provide a API call for this)
>
> ----
>    Can you name 1 on linux that does?
>
>    I can't think of any -- sendmail, imap, samba, squid, syslog...


Commercial - Oracle, DB2 (from IBM)

opensource -
   sendmail has a quiesce signal handler, but I've never used it

        see sendmail.h
        extern SIGFUNC_DECL     quiesce __P((int));

   Postgres and mysql fake it I think,  You "quiesce" them by having
them do a dump of the database, then the backup picks up the dump.

The key thing is knowing the right word to google for, and the right
word is quiesce.

Greg