On Jun 11, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Edgar Fuß wrote: >> No, snapshots are supported in 6.0. > Ah, great! > Someone should adjust the ffsconfig(8) man page, then: > > $ man fssconfig | tail -5 > BUGS > The fss(4) driver is experimental. Be sure you have a backup before you > use it. > > NetBSD 6.0_BETA January 31, 2005 NetBSD 6.0_BETA
Thats a bug. >> Taking a file system external snapshot should be a quick task > That means a ffsconfig(8) with the backup argument pointing to a > different file system? > I assume the backup file will roughly need to hold the amount of data > written to the original fs while the snapshot is active. Is it true that > if the backup file is lost or the fs containing it runs out of space > I only lose the snapshot and the original data is unaffected? Yes and yes. -- Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hann...@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)
