From: "Amir G." Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/30] Ext4 snapshots Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 06:18:10 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1307459283-22130-1-git-send-email-amir73il@users.sourceforge.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Lukas Czerner , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sandeen@redhat.com To: Yongqiang Yang Return-path: 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 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 le= vel >> snapshotting I would suspect that it would do something we can not d= o >> with the current solutions, for example per-file or per-directory sn= apshots, >> cat ext4 snapshots do that ? > Hi Lukas, > > I noticed that there is no answer to this question in the thread. =A0= 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 impleme= nted yet (I have it in a dev branch) > -- > Best Wishes > Yongqiang Yang > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html