Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:50:13 -0800 From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UFS snapshots in current Message-ID: <200203282250.g2SMoDD99826@beastie.mckusick.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:44:45 EST." <p0510152bb8c94be6344a@[128.113.24.47]>
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:44:45 -0500 To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com> From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Subject: Re: UFS snapshots in current Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG At 1:30 PM -0800 3/28/02, Kirk McKusick wrote: >The is no chance that snapshots would move into -current. >They touch thousands of lines of code. aside: s/current/stable/ ... Same brain-fault twice in two days. More useful question: what should I look at for info on using snapshots? It seems to me I should already know, but I have to admit I don't. What's worse, I think I even asked this once before... In any case, I'd like to try them out (on current) for some ideas I have. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu General references are found at: http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/index.html The soft updates paper has a section on snapshots. The background fsck paper goes into snapshots (and their general usage) in a bit more detail, so is likely to be more useful. Kirk McKusick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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