[Ocfs2-users] FREEZE x mount.ocfs2

[Sunil Mushran]

The freeze functionality has not pushed upstream as yet. We will
do so in the coming months.

Jeronimo Bezerra wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I´m trying to test the new feature FREEZE from kernel 2.6.29 to snapshot 
> (using Flash Copy in IBM Storage) a consistent filesystem state. Using a 
> EXT3 the mount option -o freezer works, but trying with OCFS2 I received 
> this message:
>
> (4186,0):ocfs2_parse_options:1392 ERROR: Unrecognized mount option 
> "freezer" or missing value
>
> I'm using Debian Lenny amd64, kernel 2.6.30-bpo.1, ocfs2-tools 1.4.1-1.
>
> Using ext3:
>
> /dev/sda6 on /mnt type ext3 (rw,freezer)
>
> Is it a problem with ocfs2-tools or OCFS2 doesn't work with freeze yet?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jerônimo Bezerra
>