From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: "Xin Zhao" <uszhaoxin@gmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how do versioning filesystems take snapshot of opened files?
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 08:02:47 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18058.51079.350424.273688@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Chris Mason on Tuesday July 3
On Tuesday July 3, chris.mason@oracle.com wrote:
>
> Getting a snapshot that is useful with respect to application data
> requires help from the application.
Certainly.
> The app needs to be shutdown or
> paused prior to the snapshot and then started up again after the
> snapshot is taken.
Alternately, the app needs to be able to cope with unexpected system
shutdown (aka crash) and the same ability will allow it to cope with
an atomic snapshot. It may be able to recover more efficiently from
an expected shutdown, so being able to tell the app about an impending
snapshot is probably a good idea, but it should be advisory only.
NeilBrown
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-03 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-03 5:28 how do versioning filesystems take snapshot of opened files? Xin Zhao
[not found] ` <778391c50707022236v5157a933qea1994cf4cbce879@mail.gmail.com>
2007-07-03 5:44 ` Xin Zhao
2007-07-03 13:09 ` Chris Mason
2007-07-03 16:12 ` Xin Zhao
2007-07-03 16:35 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-07-03 16:24 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-07-03 16:31 ` Xin Zhao
2007-07-03 17:04 ` Chris Mason
2007-07-03 17:15 ` Xin Zhao
2007-07-03 17:38 ` Chris Mason
2007-07-03 21:06 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-07-03 21:17 ` Xin Zhao
2007-07-03 22:02 ` Neil Brown [this message]
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