<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Matthew,</div><div>our backend is netapp fas8040 via nfs and our instances have often more than one disk.</div><div>Thanks</div><div>Ignazio<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno mer 23 gen 2019 alle ore 15:19 Matthew Booth <<a href="mailto:mbooth@redhat.com">mbooth@redhat.com</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 18:51, Sean McGinnis <<a href="mailto:sean.mcginnis@gmx.com" target="_blank">sean.mcginnis@gmx.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 07:04:05PM +0100, Ignazio Cassano wrote:<br>
> > Hi All,<br>
> > Please, I' d like to know if cinder backup and/or cinder snapshot call<br>
> > qemu guest agent for fsfreezing.<br>
> > If Yes, does it freeze file systems in the volume?<br>
> > Regards<br>
> > Ignazio<br>
><br>
> Unfortunately no, initiating a snapshot or backup from Cinder does not call out<br>
> to Nova to do any guest quiescing. There would need to be something else<br>
> coordinating the calls between the guest OS and initiating the Cinder snapshot<br>
> to do that.<br>
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Although it wouldn't help making a consistent snapshot of an instance<br>
with multiple disks, for a single disk it shouldn't matter if the<br>
guest is quiesced as long as the backend can make an instantaneous<br>
snapshot. I'm pretty sure many (most?) backends would support that;<br>
certainly plain old LVM does. Does cinder use this functionality where<br>
it's available, and would that solve the problem you're trying to<br>
address?<br>
<br>
Matt<br>
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><br>
> Sean<br>
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Matthew Booth<br>
Red Hat OpenStack Engineer, Compute DFG<br>
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Phone: +442070094448 (UK)<br>
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