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Subject: Re: Adding snapshot capability to Linux
From: Alvaro Figueroa <fede2@fuerzag.ulatina.ac.cr>
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> I'm sorry to have to say this, but making snapshots of remote filesystems is
> kinda silly and impossible - if you implement it at the FS level.

FWIW, this kinda sounds like mirroring an EVMS object that is on a
remote machine[1], or the cache in CODA.

[1] Plugins for working on objetcs in a SAN or network attatched disks.

-- 
Alvaro Figueroa

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