Re: [SLUG] snapshot file systems

[Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 11:35, Julio Cesar Ody <julioody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> has anyone got any experience with GNU/Linux snapshot file systems?
>
> I googled around and found these:
>
> http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/snapfs/
>
> http://sourcefrog.net/projects/snapfs/
>
> Didn't get any of them installed yet because I won't put my hands
> (root) on any GNU/Linux OS in the next day or two.
>
> What I want is something similar to FreeBSD's snapshot file system,
> which creates a read-only mount point containing a snapshot of the
> data in a section/partition/whatever, where you can copy stuff from.
>
> Any help is appreciated. Cheers.

I'm not an expert in this area, but might UnionFS fit your needs?

http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/project-unionfs.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6654


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