From: Rick Moen (rick at domain linuxmafia.com)
Date: Sat 14 Sep 2002 - 19:40:29 IST
Quoting Colm MacC?rthaigh (colmmacc at domain redbrick.dcu.ie):
> I took a look at the snapfs code, it's a terrible approach, they
> basically re-implement the VFS code as a VFS. You mount
> a snapshoted filesystem as snapfs, which takes all of the calls
> and then "proxies" them to the real fs.
You're right; that's an approach that deserved to die.
> For snapshots to work, it needs to be on the roadmap for the kernel
> and the VFS needs to be modified so that it can fire off the incremental
> data somewhere else.
Pretty much. Good analysis.
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