Re: ext4 features

Trond Myklebust
2006-07-07T02:31:13Z

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 22:15 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> >Nobody gives a rats arse about backups: those are infrequent and
> >can/should use more sophisticated techniques such as checksumming.
> >
> Actually, those of us who do run production servers care vastly about
> backups. And beside being utterly unscalable (checksum 20 TB of files
> four times a day to find what changed???), you would have to remember
> the checksums for all those files.

It is trivial to check if your last backup of the file was started
within 1 second or so of the last change made to the file, in which case
your backup program needs to perform a more thorough check. That sort of
thing is possible when you are talking about a daily (or even hourly)
backup.

Cheers,
Trond