Hi Ryusuke, Ryusuke Konishi wrote: <snip> > Actually, the primitive version of nilfs2 had a support of the > ``anonymous'' snapshot mount but it was disabled before the first > formal release. > > Users could mount snapshots just with a readonly option as follows: > > # mount -t nilfs2 /dev/sdb1 /nilfs > ... > # mount -t nilfs2 -r /dev/sdb1 /backup > > And this was convenient for (consistent) online backup as you say. > Unfortunately, NILFSv2 cannot do this due to race problems of GC. > (It is possible on NILFS version 1, which does not have GC). > > If you like this anonymous snapshot mount, I'll try to bring it back. > >
I'm sure that would be a very useful feature! Regards, john > With regards, > Ryusuke Konishi > > > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://www.nilfs.org/mailman/listinfo/users
