Re: [PATCH] 3/5: Device-mapper: snapshots

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 14:21:49 EST


> > Is this target supposed to be crash safe? What happens when
> > the computer crashes while writing to such a volume?
>
> The intention is for snapshot & origin still to be consistent with each other
> on disk. (No barriers yet, but some synchronous writes.)

So it's supposed to be crash safe?

How about documenting this somewhere in the source?

-Andi
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