[CentOS] Query: Filesystems

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:27:14AM +0100, Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Just a few quick, but not very simple questions...:
> 
> Do any Linux filesystems (besides XFS) support freezing?
> (ie. in conjuction with LVM snapshots this can allow a mounted
> filesystem to be frozen [freezing all processes writing to this 
> filesystem] in a valid state (with possibly dangling

Not a linux filesystem, but sun's new ZFS filesystem has great
snapshotting support, as well as a million other incredible features.

It's more than what we think of as a traditional filesystem - it
incorporates software raid & volume management functionality as well.

danno