Re: Adding snapshot capability to Linux

From: Libor Vanek (lists@conet.cz)
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 07:19:20 EST


Peter Wächtler wrote:

> Libor Vanìk wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm going to start my dissertation work which is "Adding snapshop
>> capability to Linux kernel with copy-on-write support". My idea is
>> add it as another VFS - I know that there is some snapshot support in
>> LVM but it's working on "device-level" and I'd like/have to do it on
>> fs level.
>>
> This functionality already exists in LVM (logical volume manager).

But AFAIK it doesn't work on fs level but (i.e. you cannot make snapshot
of some directory which contains NFS/Samba mapped dirs).

Libor

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