On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 15:09, Bill Bogstad wrote: <SNIP> > Fundamentally, I don't think that a truly consistent backup system for > live filesystems can be developed without explicit mechanisms for > dealing with the issue of race conditions. Personally, I love the > idea of filesystem 'snapshots'; (which I first heard about with > Network Appliance boxes something like a decade ago). It's not only a > nice feature to have for other reasons, but basically makes this issue > go away. I can't wait until OS all vendors incorporate this > functionality into their filesystems by default. Unfortunately, I > think that Network Applicances might have patents related to this. > I'm counting the days....
Veritas FS can do snapshots and EMC can do similar on some of their gear. I agree, snapshots are so useful will be great to see this ability available by default on say Linux/LVM/ext3. -- Jim Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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