On Saturday 28 November 2009 23:37:24 Rob Owens wrote: > I thought that meant that the snapshot feature wouldn't notice when I > delete a file, but I just tested it and that is not the case. So what > does this statement mean? Or is it just outdated information?
If you delete a file which is present on the read only file system, this file will still be there using snapshots, this because snapshots will copy over at boot the ) files which where modified in the last run (latest resynced archived files from the cow directory) excluding special whiteouts hidden files. (which tracks deleted files). This was requested when I initially wrote the snapshot feature in order to not pollute the snapshot with system files (_MACOSX dir like) since snapshot were also meant like "saved work" usable also on non live systems or even non linux systems. This can be improved for sure. -- ESC:wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
