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4.10. Suspending Activity on a File System

You can suspend write activity to a file system by using the dmsetup suspend command. Suspending write activity allows hardware-based device snapshots to be used to capture the file system in a consistent state. The dmsetup resume command ends the suspension.

Usage
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Start Suspension 
dmsetup suspend MountPoint
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End Suspension 
dmsetup resume MountPoint
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MountPoint
Specifies the file system.

Examples
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This example suspends writes to file system /mygfs2. 
# dmsetup suspend /mygfs2
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This example ends suspension of writes to file system /mygfs2. 
# dmsetup resume /mygfs2
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