Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 07:02:21 -0500 From: "Mark Felder" <feld@feld.me> To: freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: EBS snapshot backups from a FreeBSD zfs file system: zpool freeze? Message-ID: <op.wznad7th34t2sn@tech304.office.supranet.net> In-Reply-To: <871u7g57rl.wl%berend@pobox.com> References: <87li5o5tz2.wl%berend@pobox.com> <CA%2BtpaK1jQuKneQsxkVfxJGzXdPdLZfqBM1QWQ0e19nK5t71t1Q@mail.gmail.com> <87ehbg5raq.wl%berend@pobox.com> <20130703055047.GA54853@icarus.home.lan> <6488DECC-2455-4E92-B432-C39490D18484@dragondata.com> <CADBaqmihCB5JP01hLwXTWHoZiJJ5-jkT-Ro=oDwOcKZT_zvEKA@mail.gmail.com> <A5A66641-5EF9-454E-A767-009480EE404E@dragondata.com> <871u7g57rl.wl%berend@pobox.com>
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On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 04:10:06 -0500, Berend de Boer <berend@pobox.com> wrote: > > Would be great to have this in FreeBSD. Once you have used EBS > snapshots, you really don't want to go back. This really does sound like Amazon needs to provide whatever mechanism to communicate between the host and the guest so this EBS snapshot can take place. On the other hand, every time I read about "block storage snapshots" -- even if you quiesce the filesystem -- I start to get really itchy thinking about the likeliness a high TPS database is going to end up with corruption and require recovery. :)
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