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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Quelling Filesyustem Activity
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Date: Tue, 21-May-85 12:09:47 EDT
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> How about being able to "freeze" file systems instead?  Once a freeze system
> call was issued for a file system, processes that attempted to write to it
> would block until the appropriate "thaw" call was made.

One problem is that this doesn't necessarily guarantee that things like
databases are in a consistent state, which will matter if you ever have
to bring them back from backups.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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