Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks

From: Stelian Pop (stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 07:43:31 EST


On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:27:56PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:

> > Come on, who REALLY expects to have consistent backups without
> > either unmounting the filesystem or using some snapshot techniques ?
>
> The who uses [s|g]tar, cpio, afio, dsmc (Tivoli distributed storage
> manager), ...
>
> Low-level snapshots don't do any good, they just freeze the "halfway
> there" on-disk structure.

But [s|g]tar, cpio, afio (don't know about dsmc) also freeze the
"halfway there" data, but at the file level instead (application
instead of filesystem)...

Stelian.

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