Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:54:29AM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote:
> > Nathan Kroenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Are you indicating that the filesystem know's or should know what
> > > an application is doing??
> > 
> > Maybe "snapshot file whenever a write-filedescriptor is closed" or
> > somesuch?
> 
> Again.  Not enough.  Some apps (many!) deal with multiple files.

So what? Why would every file-snapshot have to be a file that's valid
for the application(s) using it? (Certainly zfs snapshots don't provide
that property either, nor any other backup-related system I've seen.)


- Marcus
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