Hi, On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:01:14PM -0700, alan wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Kok, Auke wrote: > ><snip> > > > >have you looked into ext3cow? it allows you to take snapshots of the > >entire ext3 fs at a single point, and rollback / extract snapshots at any > >time later. This may be sufficient for you and the implementation seems to > >be rather stable already. > > As long as there is only one person using the file system. Rolling back > the entire filesystem may work well for you, but screw up something else > someone else is doing. > > And what kind of rights do you have to assign to the user to do that level > of snapshot and rollback? You have to assume that there are more than one > user and that they have less than root privileges.
Perhaps BTRFS might be of interest where you can have a subvolume for every user: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/12/242 Hannes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
