On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:27:50AM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>
> Yes --- we don't have the initial blocks in memory in ext3 any more
> than in ext2.
>
> However, ext3's journaling _does_ mean that it's really easy to
> completely quiesce the filesystem and mark it temporarily clean, so
> the LVM snapshot functionality can do ext3 snapshots which don't
> require any recovery.
As a note, the EVMS snapshot functionality has this capability as
well, with two additional features beyond that of the LVM code:
1) The source filesystem doesn't have to be an LVM volume; it can be a
standard MS-DOS compatible partition.
2) The snapshots can be optionally marked "writeable", so you can
modify the snapshot as well as the source filesystem after creating
the coherent snapshot.
- Ted
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