On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Amir G. <amir73il@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ;-) I think this can be implemented easily by chattr and adding check in should_snapshot() or should_move_data(). And I thought Lukas are focusing on if ext4-snapshots can do this easily. So i said YES:-) > >> 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 >> > -- 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
