From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Wacquiez?= Subject: Btrfs and raw zvol-like partition Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:26:52 +0200 Message-ID: <49E197BC.40703@enix.org> Reply-To: sw@enix.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: List-ID: Hi, A nice feature is ZFS is the "ZVOL" layer, that permit you to export=20 (directly) a raw device from your zfs pool of disc, with the benefit of= =20 powerful (growing!) snapshot and easy raid management from zfs. It's=20 particulary usefull when you use it with virtual server, allowing you t= o=20 centralize all your backup problematic, etc Does btrfs plan to support this kind of feature ? (please, don't tell m= e=20 that lvm do, lvm just sucks when you make a snapshot of your disk, and=20 lack of the "growing", commit, rollback, diffsend feature). Thanks ! S=E9bastien Wacquiez PS : see http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/source/zfstour.png if=20 you don't know what zvol do. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html