From: Benjamin LaHaise Subject: Re: Millions of files and directory caching. Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:25:40 -0400 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20021023142540.A28378@redhat.com> References: <3DB6E791.2030304@chrisdos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from to-velocet.redhat.com ([216.138.202.10] helo=touchme.toronto.redhat.com) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 184QCM-0005S6-00 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:25:42 -0700 To: Chris Dos In-Reply-To: <3DB6E791.2030304@chrisdos.com>; from chris@chrisdos.com on Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:16:49PM -0600 Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:16:49PM -0600, Chris Dos wrote: > Now if I can just come up with a way to make it do snapshots like a > Netapp I'd be set. I heard that the Linux Volume Manager has this > capability. Does anyone know if this is true? Back in 1999 there as a > snapfs project that was started, but I don't think it ever got off the > ground. LVM has the ability to create block device level snapshots, but it exacts a performance hit. Just how much depends on the configuration of the array and whether the snapshot slices are allocated from a different drive. It works quite well with ext3, although you have to make sure you mount the snapshots as ext2 read only. -ben ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0002en _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs