From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree Subject: Re: Snapshots a la NetApp? Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 12:18:31 +0100 Message-ID: <20030323111831.GF12916@marowsky-bree.de> References: <200303221822.34401.phma@webjockey.net> <33433.10.20.2.148.1048390681.squirrel@alpha> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <33433.10.20.2.148.1048390681.squirrel@alpha> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: kend@xanoptix.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com On 2003-03-22T22:38:01, kend@xanoptix.com said: > I'm just wondering if there's any development being done on NetApp-like > snapshots. (This differs from LVM snapshots in that it's file-by-file, > instead of volume based.) If not, has anyone given it any consideration?= =20 > It would be a huge win for the RAID-in-a-box folks, and, speaking as a > sysadmin, is something about which I dream frequently. Well, implementing it at the LVM level isn't entirely bad though. What kind= of advantage would have implementing at the filesystem level have? It would ne= ed to compensate at least the disadvantage of being less general. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br=E9e --=20 SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG =20 "If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)." -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy -- Louis Pasteur