Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks

From: Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 06:47:09 EST


On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> This is all done already for both LVM and EVMS snapshots. The filesystem
> (ext3, reiserfs, XFS, JFS) flushes the outstanding operations and is
> frozen, the snapshot is created, and the filesystem becomes active again.
> It takes a second or less. Then dump will guarantee 100% correct backups
> of the snapshot filesystem. You would have to do a backup on the snapshot
> to guarantee 100% correctness even with tar.

Sure. On some machines, they will go with dsmc anyhow which reads the
file and rereads if it changes under dsmc's hands.

-- 
Matthias Andree
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