On (01/27/09 10:45), James Carlson wrote:
>
> Yes, that's essentially the idea. I don't know how often you'll need
> or want new snapshots (is boot time alone enough? probably not), but I
> suspect that exposing them in some way to users so that they can
> choose what they're going to keep would be a good idea.
We could provide an interface to take snapshots at any
random time, and have a temporary operation be equivalent to
{snapshot; do operations; restore snapshot} but then atomicity
cannot be guaranteed.
--Sowmini