From: Syed Imtiaz <sihussain2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is ext2 freezable?
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 11:23:58 +0000 (UTC)
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Dexuan Cui <decui <at> microsoft.com> writes:
> Hi Ted,
> Thanks very much for the clarification!
> 
> And thanks a lot for implementing this -- I've seen the patches you 
sent out
> several hours ago.
> 
> IMO it's useful to have such compatibility, e.g.,
> Hyper-V guest has a fsfreeze-based feature to back up the data; the 
feature
> works fine for ext4 partition, but Ubuntu's installer can create /boot
> of ext2 partition by default and hence the feature can't work:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1362574
> 
> I believe the bug will go away after Ubuntu integrates your patches.
> 
> Thanks!


Hi Theodore,
  CAn you please tell me where can i find these patches. I am unable to 
locate it. or the steps the install it ?
Do we have to install it every system that doesnt support fsfreeze in 
the ext2 fs.

Your help will be deeply appreciated

thanks in advance