-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 05:15:19PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: >> I share Roland's concern about the reliability of any new code designed >> to accomplish the 'full rollback' desired, but of course anything would >> have to undergo incredibly rigorous testing before it would be allowed >> anywhere near even -CURRENT I'm sure, same as softupdates/snapshots has. >> >> That said, I think it is worthwhile finding out whether this is even >> possible with the amount of data and metadata saved in snapshots to >> accomplish their existing utility (which I still find pretty awesome, >> and despite re-reading that section again several times, mysterious ..) > > It should be possible. All the data that is needed is there. But I do > think it will be definitely non-trivial. > > For one thing, you'll have to block all other changes from userland to > the target filesystem while restoring the snapshot. And you'll have to > update other snapshots as well. Seems like a big can of worms to me.
I was thinking this should be done while the fs is umounted. As I suggested: 1. umount 2. snap_rollback <snapshot-id> and 3. mount. Svein Halvor -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] to get my PGP-key iD8DBQFGWr5ahQg3vZGYu0ARAh/iAJ0RdOGSuzgALvRNin2Nd2Xtw3hrmgCguxN4 oKBvLazzHSsN62uas1szqRg= =kOxO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"