Suspending Activity On A File System - Red Hat GLOBAL FILE SYSTEM 5.1 Manual

Examples
In this example, all GFS tunable parameters for the file system on the mount point
displayed.
gfs_tool gettune /gfs1
In this example, the
atime
system on mount point
gfs_tool settune /gfs1 atime_quantum 86400

10. Suspending Activity on a File System

You can suspend write activity to a file system by using the
Suspending write activity allows hardware-based device snapshots to be used to capture the file
system in a consistent state. The
Usage
Start Suspension
gfs_tool freeze MountPoint
End Suspension
gfs_tool unfreeze MountPoint
MountPoint
Specifies the file system.
Examples
This example suspends writes to file system
gfs_tool freeze /gfs
This example ends suspension of writes to file system
update period is set to once a day (86,400 seconds) for the GFS file
.
/gfs1
gfs_tool unfreeze
/gfs
Suspending Activity on a File System
gfs_tool freeze
command ends the suspension.
.
.
/gfs
are
/gfs1
command.
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