Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752982Ab1FKIS5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:18:57 -0400 Received: from mail.avalus.com ([89.16.176.221]:56192 "EHLO mail.avalus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751357Ab1FKISx (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:18:53 -0400 Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:18:46 +0100 From: Alex Bligh Reply-To: Alex Bligh To: Joe Thornber , "Amir G." cc: Lukas Czerner , Mike Snitzer , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lvm-devel@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel , Alex Bligh Subject: Re: LVM vs. Ext4 snapshots (was: [PATCH v1 00/30] Ext4 snapshots) Message-ID: <843433D5F73C864182AC91B8@nimrod.local> In-Reply-To: <20110611074908.GC2517@ubuntu> References: <20110610101142.GA10144@ubuntu> <20110610150129.GA17585@ubuntu> <20110611074908.GC2517@ubuntu> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 753 Lines: 20 --On 11 June 2011 08:49:08 +0100 Joe Thornber 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) -- Alex Bligh -- 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/