On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 11:58 +0100, jes.soren...@redhat.com wrote: > From: Jes Sorensen <jes.soren...@redhat.com> > > Hi > > This is a first attempt to add fsfreeze support to virtagent. The idea > is for the guest agent to walk the list of locally mounted file > systems in the guest, and issuing an ioctl to freeze them. The host > can then do a live snapshot of the guest, obtaining stable file > systems. After the snapshot, the host then calls the thaw function in > virtagent, which goes through the list of previously frozen file > systems and unfreezes them. > > The list walking ignores remote file systems such as NFS and CIFS as > well as all pseudo file systems. > > The guest agent code is in the first patch, and host agent code is in > the second patch. For now there is only human monitor support, but it > should be pretty straight forward to add QMP support as well. > > Patches are against the virtagent-dev git tree. > > Comments and suggestions welcome! > > Cheers, > Jes
Hello. Very nice feature. Sorry for offropic, but can this feature can be used to modify partiotion table on already mounted device (for example root on ext3? ) Thank You. -- Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tols...@selfip.ru> Selfip.Ru
