From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: linux-2.4.10-pre5
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:22:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010910222243.B9166@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0109090909001.21049-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109091105380.14479-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <9ngirh$jsu$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <9ngirh$jsu$1@cesium.transmeta.com>; from hpa@zytor.com on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:18:57PM -0700
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:18:57PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The ideal way to run backups I have found is on filesystems which
> support atomic snapshots -- that way, your backup set becomes not only
> safe (since it goes through the kernel etc. etc.) but totally
> coherent, since it is guaranteed to be unchanging. This is a major
> win for filesystems which can do atomic snapshots, and I'd highly
> encourage filesystem developers to consider this feature.
It's already done. LVM's snapshot facility has the ability to ask the
filesystem to quiesce itself into a consistent state before the
snapshot is taken, and both Reiserfs and ext3 support that function.
Cheers,
Stephen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-10 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-08 4:18 linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-08 6:32 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5: drivers/net/wan compile fixes Eyal Lebedinsky
2001-09-08 6:36 ` 2.4.9-ac10 (not 2.4.10-pre5!) wan fixes Eyal Lebedinsky
2001-09-08 8:32 ` 2.4.10-pre5 compile error George Bonser
2001-09-08 17:19 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-08 17:30 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-08 17:57 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-08 18:01 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 1:09 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 1:20 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 1:38 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 1:53 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 2:22 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 2:31 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 3:30 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 3:58 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 4:16 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 4:28 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 12:09 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Rik van Riel
2001-09-09 14:53 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 18:17 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 20:18 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 H. Peter Anvin
2001-09-10 0:39 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Simon Kirby
2001-09-10 8:30 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Kai Henningsen
2001-09-11 5:29 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Peter Samuelson
2001-09-11 11:29 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Kai Henningsen
2001-09-10 21:22 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2001-09-09 14:47 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 16:24 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 17:29 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 23:56 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-09 4:29 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andreas Dilger
2001-09-09 4:54 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 6:17 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andreas Dilger
2001-09-09 17:31 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 19:19 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-09 23:24 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 23:54 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Alan Cox
2001-09-10 0:04 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-10 0:23 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-10 0:23 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-10 0:38 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-10 1:04 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-10 1:45 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Chris Mason
2001-09-10 1:55 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-10 2:02 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Chris Mason
2001-09-10 2:06 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-10 2:15 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-10 2:22 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-10 2:20 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Chris Mason
2001-09-10 2:40 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-10 3:02 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Chris Mason
2001-09-10 3:36 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-10 19:06 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Chris Mason
2001-09-10 2:03 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-10 2:41 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Chris Mason
2001-09-10 21:18 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-10 21:23 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-09-10 21:54 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-10 22:39 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-09-10 23:13 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-10 23:25 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-09-10 22:15 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-10 22:26 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-10 22:39 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Rik van Riel
2001-09-10 23:14 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-10 23:16 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-11 0:53 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Rik van Riel
2001-09-11 6:39 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Hua Zhong
2001-09-11 15:12 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-11 15:44 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-11 15:48 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-11 16:05 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-09-11 16:07 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-11 16:07 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-09-11 16:13 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Martin Dalecki
2001-09-11 17:17 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-11 10:02 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-11 20:07 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Rik van Riel
2001-09-10 23:20 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-11 0:20 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-11 1:16 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-11 2:27 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-11 7:45 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Helge Hafting
2001-09-11 10:27 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-11 15:39 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-11 16:52 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-09 19:51 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Daniel Phillips
2001-09-09 9:05 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-09 13:14 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Anton Altaparmakov
2001-09-09 14:31 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-08 21:15 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andreas Dilger
2001-09-09 0:59 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-08 22:01 ` linux-2.4.10-pre5 Thiago Vinhas de Moraes
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