Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:51:07 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 00/30] Ext4 snapshots | From | Yongqiang Yang <> |
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On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Amir G. <amir73il@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > 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 ;-) I think this can be implemented easily by chattr and adding check in should_snapshot() or should_move_data().
And I thought Lukas are focusing on if ext4-snapshots can do this easily. So i said YES:-)
> >> 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) > >> -- >> Best Wishes >> Yongqiang Yang >> >
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