On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > --On 11 June 2011 08:49:08 +0100 Joe Thornber <thornber@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I am also convinced multisnap wont be suitable for every use case. > > I'm surprised by one thing ext 4 snapshots doesn't seem to do: I would have > thought the "killer feature" for doing snapshots in the fs rather than in > the block layer would be the ability to snapshot - and more importantly > roll back - only parts of the directory hierarchy. > > (I've only read the URLs Amir sent, so apologies if I've missed this) > No need for apologies. There is no per-directory snapshot nor rollback with ext4 snpshots. It is possible to configure a part of the directory hierarchy to be excluded from future snapshots, but not to delete it selectively from past snapshots. Amir. -- 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
