Hi, > Now that nilfs2 is getting alive on my box, I started to wonder is there > will be support for named snapshots?
Our TODO List (http://www.nilfs.org/en/current_status.html) includes "Snapshot management mechanism", for example, adding name (or symbolic tag) to snapshot, making multiple checkpoints to snapshots automatically on some conditions, etc. However, the plans are not started to design yet. If you have some ideas, please post this users ML. By the way, all checkpoints has a data space which is freely able to use by user, called ``sketch''. The special file, named .sketch, is exists on mount point of nilfs2. You can write data to .sketch or read the data from .sketch. When disk write (segment construction) is performed by sync or fsync, the data are saved with the checkpoint. The I/O to .sketch does not kick any segment constructions. On current version of NILFS2, .sketch on past checkpoint is appeared after, making the checkpoint to snapshot, then mount the snapshot on some mount point directory. It is not convenient to use the sketch feature, we know. Some tools are required which read any .sketch without mount the nilfs2 partition. We should add it to our TODO list! Thank you. Amagai Yoshiji NILFS team, NTT http://www.nilfs.org/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://www.nilfs.org/mailman/listinfo/users
