Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755364Ab1FIDSP (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2011 23:18:15 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:54682 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752888Ab1FIDSM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2011 23:18:12 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Psavix7N+B+5XLPj1Qd/ov9YDfjYbetxS/w86iNkwBvNHqEa4lPY5P6RclsXqjEdUC /qyIfOzXNEG+9/WFHqCSLhop0usm86S2j1yqr5KWkACECLXYRn7QYdX1Pwh5ZU43696S 28LfQGrrvmUg2BxiVNyL3fa6dEeZgqtVJzT1k= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1307459283-22130-1-git-send-email-amir73il@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 06:18:10 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4V-ZQQ6zHTGBGcgzgzNHF66bkTU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/30] Ext4 snapshots From: "Amir G." To: Yongqiang Yang Cc: Lukas Czerner , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sandeen@redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1082 Lines: 29 On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Yongqiang Yang wrote: >> But I do understand the difference. And also, when it comes to fs level >> snapshotting I would suspect that it would do something we can not do >> with the current solutions, for example per-file or per-directory snapshots, >> cat ext4 snapshots do that ? > Hi Lukas, > > I noticed that there is no answer to this question in the thread. ?I I think I answered this question with No it can't ;-) > can give the question the answer that ext4 can snapshot per-file or > per-directory, and can exclude some files or directories from being > snapshotted. > So the full answer is that ext4 snapshot CAN exclude certain files/dirs from snapshot, but this feature is not fully implemented yet (I have it in a dev branch) > -- > Best Wishes > Yongqiang Yang > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/