Re: Adding snapshot capability to Linux

From: Kent Borg (kentborg@borg.org)
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 12:41:39 EST


On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:07:46AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Please see:
> http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/snapfs/
>
> What you describe is exactly what snapfs does. The Sourceforge project
> is currently inactive, but the code itself is GPL and only needs some
> polishing up and maintenance to be useful (probably also some work to
> get it all OK under 2.4 again).

Very interesting. Firing up google.com/linux I found a LWN story on
snapfs from a year ago March: <http://lwn.net/2001/0308/kernel.php3>.
Other than looking to me like it might not be bootable, this looks
very much like something someone named Kent Borg was asking about a
few days ago.

-kb
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