Marcus Sundman wrote: > Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:54:29AM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: >>> Nathan Kroenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Are you indicating that the filesystem know's or should know what >>>> an application is doing?? >>> Maybe "snapshot file whenever a write-filedescriptor is closed" or >>> somesuch? >> Again. Not enough. Some apps (many!) deal with multiple files. > > So what? Why would every file-snapshot have to be a file that's valid > for the application(s) using it? (Certainly zfs snapshots don't provide > that property either, nor any other backup-related system I've seen.)
If it isn't how does the user or application know that is safe to use that file ? Is it okay to provide a snapshot of a file that is corrupt and will cause further more serious data corruption in the application ? -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
