On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> But I do understand the difference. And also, when it comes to fs level >> snapshotting I would suspect that it would do something we can not do >> with the current solutions, for example per-file or per-directory snapshots, >> cat ext4 snapshots do that ? > Hi Lukas, > > I noticed that there is no answer to this question in the thread. I I think I answered this question with No it can't ;-) > can give the question the answer that ext4 can snapshot per-file or > per-directory, and can exclude some files or directories from being > snapshotted. > So the full answer is that ext4 snapshot CAN exclude certain files/dirs from snapshot, but this feature is not fully implemented yet (I have it in a dev branch) > -- > Best Wishes > Yongqiang Yang > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
