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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: how do versioning filesystems take snapshot of opened files?
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:04:36 -0400
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:31:49 -0400
"Xin Zhao" <uszhaoxin@gmail.com> wrote:

> That's a good point!
> 
> But this sounds hopeless to take a real consistent snapshot from app
> perspective unless you shutdown the computer. Right?

Many different applications support some form of pausing in order
to facilitate live backups.  You just have to keep it all in mind when
designing the total backup solution.

-chris