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there is not, however it is really easy to write a script to freeze the volume and execute a snapshot.

# xfs_freeze -f /data # ec2-create-snapshot vol-###### # xfs_freeze -u /data

So that's an xfs feature, but is is this really necessary on a journaling filesystem? I guess for ext3 I'd replace ext_freeze with sync.

One of my clients has 2 windows instances. I will need to look at the windows tools to see if there is something equivalent there.