mksnap_ffs woes

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 06:59:22PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote:

> >The snapshot code was intended to support background fsck and that
> >alone.  It's also optionally used by the dump code, but it was not
> >written as a general-purpose live filesystem snapshot service.
> 
> Ok.
> I just think that this, as well as the disclaimer about it being alpha 
> code and the access locks, should be mentioned in the Handbook. Reading 
> that chapter or mksnap_ffs's manual, I didn't get it and I suspect 
> people might get the idea that it is stable code, which provides some 
> functionality that it doesn't.

The 'alpha' part is what I meant about this file being out of date.
It is stable and widely used, but that doesn't mean there are not
bugs.

> So, if for instantaneous you mean at a specific time, I don't care at 
> all wether the image is made an hour earlier or later. All I'd like is 
> coherence.

Isn't this usually done by dumping the database state and then backing
that up, instead of trying to back up the live database?

Kris
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