Also, there's the LVM snapshot at the block layer someone already
mentioned, which when used with smaller partions is less overhead.
(less FS delta)
This problem isn't that complex.
On 07/16, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer said something like:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:04:22PM -0500, Shawn wrote:
> > You don't.
> >
> > This is where you have a filesystem where syslog, xinetd, blogd,
> > bloatd-config-d2, raffle-ticketd DO NOT LIVE.
> >
> > People forget so easily the wonders of multiple partitions.
>
> I'm sorry, but I don't understand how it's going to change anything. For
> sure, it makes your life easier because you don't have to shutdown all your
> programs that have files opened in R/W mode. But in the end, you will have
> to shutdown something to remount the partition in R/O mode and usually you
> don't want or can't afford to do that.
>
> --
> Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer E-Mail : mathieu@newview.com
> It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a
> proper judge of it.
> -- Oscar Wilde
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