To use the online disk snapshot for online-backup, application-level
consistency of the snapshot image is required. However, currently the
guest agent can provide only filesystem-level consistency, and the
snapshot may contain dirty data, for example, incomplete transactions.
This patch provides the opportunity to quiesce applications before
snapshot is taken.
If --fsfreeze-hook option is specified, the hook is executed with
"freeze" argument before the filesystem is frozen by fsfreeze-freeze
command. As for fsfreeze-thaw command, the hook is executed with "thaw"
argument after the filesystem is thawed.
This patch depends on patchset to improve error reporting by Luiz Capitulino:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-11/msg03016.html
Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
*clarified usage in help output
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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