Re: Adding snapshot capability to Linux

[Alvaro Figueroa]

> Instead of changing VFS you can probably make a generic stackable FS module 
> .....that can stack on top of the physical filesystems  and happily take 
> snapshots at "FS" level :) ! and you can use the FIST to create a basic 
> stackable FS and then modify it to take care of snapshoting !

Since this solution doens't solve Lisbor's request of using it on smb
filesystems, well, you could as well save up all of the programmer
cycles and use EVMS.

It has a pluggin for treating normal partitions as EVMS objets, so you
don't need to translate them or so; and with EVMS you can even use RW
snapshots.

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Alvaro Figueroa