On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 03:12:22PM -0400, Nick Cabatoff wrote:
> There's one for UFS/FFS now on the way in FreeBSD 5.0: Kirk McKusick
> just released alpha code to do what he calls snapshots, which I'm told
> will enable background fscking, among other things. See
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mckusick/snap.tgz (or the freebsd-arch
> archives) if you're curious.
You can do the same today on Linux with LVM snapshots. They are only
useful for read-only consistency checking because they are read-only.
(so in case of a problem you'll need to umount and rerun fsck on the
normal device)
-Andi
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