Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 May 2006 12:42:01 +0300 (EEST) | From | Pekka J Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System |
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On Wed, 3 May 2006, Michael Holzheu wrote: > All the complicated mechanisms with filesystem trees > to obtain consistent data and transaction functionality > could be avoided, if we would use single files, which > contain all the data. When opening the file, the snapshot > is created and attached to the struct file.
If we're going to add new infrastructure, I'd vote for adding snapshotting capability to filesystems. We need it for stuff like LogFS anyway.
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