On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 19:23, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 11:35, Julio Cesar Ody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > has anyone got any experience with GNU/Linux snapshot file systems? > > > > I googled around and found these: > > > > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/snapfs/ > > > > http://sourcefrog.net/projects/snapfs/ > > > > Didn't get any of them installed yet because I won't put my hands > > (root) on any GNU/Linux OS in the next day or two. > > > > What I want is something similar to FreeBSD's snapshot file system, > > which creates a read-only mount point containing a snapshot of the > > data in a section/partition/whatever, where you can copy stuff from. > > > > Any help is appreciated. Cheers. > > I'm not an expert in this area, but might UnionFS fit your needs? > > http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/project-unionfs.html > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6654
Replying to my own post... LVM or EVMS might be worth looking at as well. AFAIK both can do snapshotting. Here's a good introductory article on EVMS: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10288 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems." -- Linus Torvalds
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