On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 06:59:22PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > >The snapshot code was intended to support background fsck and that > >alone. It's also optionally used by the dump code, but it was not > >written as a general-purpose live filesystem snapshot service. > > Ok. > I just think that this, as well as the disclaimer about it being alpha > code and the access locks, should be mentioned in the Handbook. Reading > that chapter or mksnap_ffs's manual, I didn't get it and I suspect > people might get the idea that it is stable code, which provides some > functionality that it doesn't.
The 'alpha' part is what I meant about this file being out of date. It is stable and widely used, but that doesn't mean there are not bugs. > So, if for instantaneous you mean at a specific time, I don't care at > all wether the image is made an hour earlier or later. All I'd like is > coherence. Isn't this usually done by dumping the database state and then backing that up, instead of trying to back up the live database? Kris
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