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From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Alvaro Figueroa <fede2@fuerzag.ulatina.ac.cr>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Adding snapshot capability to Linux
Date: 23 Apr 2002 16:58:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1019573931.11011.0.camel@bip> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0204231041010.8087-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>

le mar 23-04-2002 à 16:45, Alexander Viro a écrit :
> You _can't_ get consistent snapshots without cooperation from fs.  LVM,
> EVMS, whatever.  Only filesystem knows what IO needs to be pushed to
> make what we have on device consistent and what IO needs to be held
> back.  Neither VFS nor device driver do not and can not have such
> knowledge - it depends both on fs layout and on implementation details.

I always thought that with a journalled fs, data was always consistent
on disk - i.e. always in a state where remounting the image (and
replaying the journal) makes it consistent.



  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-23 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-22 10:58 Adding snapshot capability to Linux Libor Vaněk
2002-04-22 12:06 ` Peter Wächtler
2002-04-22 12:19   ` Libor Vanek
2002-04-22 12:42     ` Jasper Spaans
2002-04-22 15:02       ` Alvaro Figueroa
2002-04-23  5:36   ` rpm
2002-04-23 14:30     ` Alvaro Figueroa
2002-04-23 14:45       ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-23 14:58         ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2002-04-23 18:48         ` Libor Vanek
2002-04-23 19:04         ` Jeremy Jackson
2002-04-23 20:22           ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-22 17:07 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-22 17:41   ` Kent Borg
2002-04-22 18:39     ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-22 18:19   ` Sandy Harris

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