Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:38:36 +0200 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks |
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:53:01PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > > Not if some day somebody implements file system level snapshots for > > Linux. Until then, better have garbled file contents constrained to a > > file than random data as on-disk layout changes with hefty directory > > updates. > > or the blockdevice-level snapshots already implemented in Linux..
That would require three atomic steps:
1. mount read-only, flushing all pending updates 2. take snapshot 3. mount read-write
and then backup the snapshot. A snapshots of a live file system won't do, it can be as inconsistent as it desires -- if your corrupt target is moving or not, dumping it is not of much use.
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