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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Dominik Kubla <kubla@sciobyte.de>
Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>,
	"Alexis S. L. Carvalho" <alexis@cecm.usp.br>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: implementing soft-updates
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:13:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020410181304.GA3509@turbolinux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020409184605.A13621@cecm.usp.br> <200204100041.g3A0fSj00928@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20020410092807.GA4015@duron.intern.kubla.de>

On Apr 10, 2002  11:28 +0200, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> try to implement the snapshot capability for  ext2/ext3. Everyone of us
> who has to do live backups of production systems  will thank you if you
> get that development started.

LVM can already do snapshots at the device level.  It integrates with
ext3/XFS/reiserfs via sync_super_lockfs/unlockfs so that what is in
the snapshot is a consistent, clean filesystem.

There might need to be a little touchup with ext2 to support these
calls, but even in the current state you get a usable filesystem
snapshot, with the exception that the filesystem has not been marked
clean.

As for a filesystem-level ext2/ext3 snapshot, this has also already
been done (sf.net/projects/snapfs).  The people who took over that
project have removed all of the released files and CVS, but you can
still get the CVS from the sourceforge CVS backups.  I also have a
version here, but don't have any time to work on it.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-10 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-09 21:46 implementing soft-updates Alexis S. L. Carvalho
2002-04-09 22:17 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-09 22:23   ` Dominik Kubla
2002-04-09 23:36     ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-10  0:41 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-04-10  1:58   ` Alexis S. L. Carvalho
2002-04-10  3:46     ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-10  2:55   ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-10 11:48     ` Peter Wächtler
2002-04-11 12:45     ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-10  9:28   ` Dominik Kubla
2002-04-10 18:07     ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-04-08 20:34       ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-10 18:13     ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
     [not found] <20020409184605.A13621@cecm.usp.br.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <200204100041.g3A0fSj00928@saturn.cs.uml.edu.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <20020410092807.GA4015@duron.intern.kubla.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-04-10 19:24     ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-08 20:35       ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-15 20:25         ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-15 20:47         ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-16 10:45         ` Wichert Akkerman
2002-04-16 18:55           ` Mike Fedyk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-11 16:35 James Bottomley

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