On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Tapan Chaudhari wrote:
> > My first question would be "Why do you want to do that?"
>
> I am planning to write a block level snapshot driver.

OK.
You might want to look at geom_journal I guess.

> > I think you'd have a lower overhead and much less hassle writing a
> > GEOM class and using that.
>
> This sounds good. I will try using GEOM first. But if I could achieve
> interception, as I described earlier, I will go for that rather than
> redirection.

I think using GEOM is the "Right Way" in FreeBSD for this.

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