Re: how do versioning filesystems take snapshot of opened files?

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That's a good point!

But this sounds hopeless to take a real consistent snapshot from app
perspective unless you shutdown the computer. Right?

Thanks.


On 7/3/07, Bryan Henderson <hbryan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Consistent state means many different things.

And, significantly, open/close has nothing to do with any of them
(assuming we're talking about the system calls).  open/close does not
identify a transaction; a program may open and close a file multiple times
the course of making a "single" update.  Also, data and metadata updates
remain buffered at the kernel level after a close.  And don't forget that
a single update may span multiple files.

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Bryan Henderson                     IBM Almaden Research Center
San Jose CA                         Filesystems


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