On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:34:42PM +0500, Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:55:49 +0000 > Hugo Mills <h...@carfax.org.uk> wrote: > > > > This is strange considering that I wanted a consistent snapshot of > > > entire btrfs filesystem at volume level. > > > > > > Is there a way to achive this? or btrfs just cannot provide? > > > > No, there's no way to manage it with the current btrfs code. > > Why not. fsfreeze, dd to a file (optionally with compression), unfreeze.
OK, point taken, but if you want to use the frozen volume to make a file-level backup of the FS contents, you've still got to turn it into a block device and mount it... at which point, you get hit by the explosion again... Hugo. -- Hugo Mills | The future isn't what it used to be. hugo@... carfax.org.uk | http://carfax.org.uk/ | PGP: E2AB1DE4 |
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