On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:31:49 -0400 "Xin Zhao" <uszhaoxin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That's a good point! > > But this sounds hopeless to take a real consistent snapshot from app > perspective unless you shutdown the computer. Right? Many different applications support some form of pausing in order to facilitate live backups. You just have to keep it all in mind when designing the total backup solution. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html