Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jun 2011 06:18:10 +0300 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 00/30] Ext4 snapshots | From | "Amir G." <> |
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On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com> wrote: >> But I do understand the difference. And also, when it comes to fs level >> snapshotting I would suspect that it would do something we can not do >> with the current solutions, for example per-file or per-directory snapshots, >> cat ext4 snapshots do that ? > Hi Lukas, > > I noticed that there is no answer to this question in the thread. I
I think I answered this question with No it can't ;-)
> can give the question the answer that ext4 can snapshot per-file or > per-directory, and can exclude some files or directories from being > snapshotted. >
So the full answer is that ext4 snapshot CAN exclude certain files/dirs from snapshot, but this feature is not fully implemented yet (I have it in a dev branch)
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