# File system locking when snapshotting?

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/file-system-locking-when-snapshotting/5580>\
**Category:** Convoy\
**Created:** [February 17, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/file-system-locking-when-snapshotting/5580 "2017-02-17T23:21:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![peebles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@peebles](https://forums.suse.com/u/peebles)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/file-system-locking-when-snapshotting/5580/1 "2017-02-17T23:21:19Z")

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I have not seen any explicit mention of file system locking when doing a snapshot. I have been looking at [https://github.com/alestic/ec2-consistent-snapshot](https://github.com/alestic/ec2-consistent-snapshot) as a possible solution for snapshotting AWS EBS volumes. That program is backed with a lot of discussion about file system locking to try to achieve consistent backups. I prefer something like convoy which I might be able to use in AWS as well as on-premise, but I’d feel better if there was some attempt at consistency when taking snapshots. Or is this really my concern?