Does open-vm-tools use the FIFREEZE and FITHAW ioctls to perform filesystem freezes?

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Issue

  • Does open-vm-tools use the FIFREEZE and FITHAW ioctls to perform filesystem freezes?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • VMWare virtual machine
  • open-vm-tools

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