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Date:      Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:46:54 +0100
From:      Bernard Dugas <bernard@dugas-family.org>
To:        Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot
Message-ID:  <494A0DFE.2000501@dugas-family.org>
In-Reply-To: <200812180826.49948.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
References:  <4947B8AB.7000304@dugas-family.org> <200812170947.12794.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <4948D650.8040603@dugas-family.org> <200812180826.49948.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>

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Mel wrote:
> I'm still wondering if you're not better off with ZFS, but this does seem like 
> a useful app in it's own right.

ZFS is not handling replication on remote servers very well currently, 
and they don't seem to care about this from the reactions i had on some 
forums. And i would not use ZFS for production system on FreeBSD now.

FFS snapshots are stable in production, and adding a reading function on 
snapshot structures will not change stability :-)

> The TAILQ_HEAD statement means it's creating a tail queue(3) (double linked 
> fifo/stack) of inodes. The snapdata structure contains the start of the list, 
> the size and a lock. The sn_blklist pointer, I will have to look up.
> 
> I think i'm gonna have fun with this for a bit ;)

This is christmas gift. But for who :-?

Thanks a lot !
-- 
Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333 770



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