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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:41:39 -0400
From: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
To: Libor Vanlk <libor@conet.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding snapshot capability to Linux
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:07:46AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Please see:
> http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/snapfs/
> 
> What you describe is exactly what snapfs does.  The Sourceforge project
> is currently inactive, but the code itself is GPL and only needs some
> polishing up and maintenance to be useful (probably also some work to
> get it all OK under 2.4 again).

Very interesting.  Firing up google.com/linux I found a LWN story on
snapfs from a year ago March: <http://lwn.net/2001/0308/kernel.php3>.
Other than looking to me like it might not be bootable, this looks
very much like something someone named Kent Borg was asking about a
few days ago.


-kb
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