From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Online migration of arbitrary filesystems, possible?
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:06:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15766.1364591205@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:09:14 -0300." <5155F4EA.3050003@gmail.com>
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:09:14 -0300, Daniel Hilst said:
> The idea is, mount both filesystems "together", and make write/read
> operations go on this way
> Read operations:
> 1. See if data is already on dest fs,
> 2. If is then read data and bright back to caller (lets call this
> cold read)
> 3. If is not, then read file from source fs, put it on page cache,
> and change the backstorage of that page..
> 3.1 So when this page get dirty or too old, it will be writed to
Any reason you can't just 'rsync /source-fs /dest-fs'?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-29 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-29 20:09 Online migration of arbitrary filesystems, possible? Daniel Hilst
2013-03-29 20:28 ` Greg Freemyer
2013-04-01 21:00 ` Daniel Hilst
2013-04-01 21:39 ` Jason Ball
2013-03-29 21:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu [this message]
2013-04-01 20:50 ` Daniel Hilst
2013-04-02 18:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
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