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  • The quiesce instance variable in the code above is a ReentrantReadWriteLock, so if anybody came in and called the quiesce method, they'd request the write lock...
  • When a backup product requests a backup, it can tell VSS to "quiesce" these VSS-aware applications.
  • A te principium, in te recredit crimen quod a te fuit; peccasti, quiesce, as Ambrose expostulates with Cain, lib.
  • Because only at the source can you typically quiesce the application writing to the storage so that the snapshot will be a meaningful one.
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