Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Snapshots of an active file

2006-10-08 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 03:38:54PM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: > Joseph Mocker wrote: > >Which brings me back to the point of file versioning. If an > >implementation were based on something like when a file is open()ed > >with write bits set. There would be no potential for broken files like > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Snapshots of an active file

2006-10-08 Thread Erik Trimble
Joseph Mocker wrote: Which brings me back to the point of file versioning. If an implementation were based on something like when a file is open()ed with write bits set. There would be no potential for broken files like this. Also, it would seem that your statement about snapshots as being "w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Snapshots of an active file

2006-10-07 Thread Torrey McMahon
Joseph Mocker wrote: Which brings me back to the point of file versioning. If an implementation were based on something like when a file is open()ed with write bits set. There would be no potential for broken files like this. I'm showing my lack of knowledge on this one but I thought SAM-

[zfs-discuss] Re: Snapshots of an active file

2006-10-07 Thread Joseph Mocker
Erik Trimble wrote: Joseph Mocker wrote: Erik Trimble wrote: The developers can answer this definitively, but I believe the answer to your questions is NO. That is, if there is anything in the buffer waiting to be written when a snapshot request comes along, the buffer is written out so