Atime 9.10. Suspending Activity On A File System; Usage; Examples - Red Hat GFS 5.2.1 Administrator's Manual

Chapter 9. Managing GFS

9.9.2.2. Examples

In this example, all GFS tunable parameters for the file system on the mount point
played.
gfs_tool gettune /gfs1
In this example, the
atime
on mount point
/gfs1
gfs_tool settune /gfs1 atime_quantum 86400
9.10. Suspending Activity on a File System
All write activity to a file system can be suspended for a time by using the
action. The
freeze
hardware-based device snapshots to be used to capture the file system in a consistent state.

9.10.1. Usage

Freeze Activity
gfs_tool MountPoint
freeze
Unfreeze Activity
gfs_tool
unfreeze
MountPoint
Specifies the file system to freeze or unfreeze.
9.10.2. Examples
This example freezes file system
gfs_tool freeze /gfs
This example unfreezes file system
gfs_tool unfreeze /gfs
update period is set to once a day (86,400 seconds) for the GFS file system
.
action returns the file system to its ordinary state. That feature allows
unfreeze
MountPoint
.
/gfs
.
/gfs
101
are dis-
/gfs1
command's
gfs_tool