On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Edd Barrett <vex...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Luis Useche <use...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Edd: I haven't seen anything like a snapshot in FFS. I think snapshots >> come really unnatural to FFS-like file systems. > > NetBSD and FreeBSD have them :)
I found it. You were right. It looks nice. However, it is somewhat limited. It can only perform a maximum of 20 snapshots. It is a matter of take a look to the implementation and see if there is some workaround. >> This is usually >> implemented in COW file systems. For this reason, I was also thinking >> on porting LFS from NetBSD and include the snapshoting functionality. >> But again, I thought this could probably be somewhat complicated. It >> could be a future project though. > > I very much doubt anyone would want to switch from FFS. Keep it simple. This can be a subject of discussion, but you are probably right. Luis.
