On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:40:16AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: > How do snapshots work and how do they provide the consistency necessary > for a dump? [...] > > SoftUpdates are required on the filesystem.
This sounds beautiful. I am amazed. I knew of softupdates, but they were always a shady corner of my understanding of BSD. So live fs dumping is based on the great hackery of softupdates. Fine, but in this case... shouldn't the man page make a mention of it? It just says that -L is ignored in case of unmounted/ro mounted fs-s, or if there is no proper .snap dir. But it doesn't say that it will be ignored if softupdates is not turned on... Going a bit off: which OS-es provide this live snapshot dumping capability? FreeBSD? FreeBSD >= 5.x ? *BSD ? Maybe something else? (AFAIK, softupdates is supported also in other members of the BSD family, yet the NetBSD dump manpage didn't have such a -L flag...) -- Csaba Henk My sense of humour is often too subtle to cope with getting smileyd. Please don't take it personal. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"