Re: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System

[Pekka J Enberg]

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> All the complicated mechanisms with filesystem trees
> to obtain consistent data and transaction functionality
> could be avoided, if we would use single files, which
> contain all the data. When opening the file, the snapshot
> is created and attached to the struct file.

If we're going to add new infrastructure, I'd vote for adding snapshotting 
capability to filesystems. We need it for stuff like LogFS anyway.

				Pekka
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