From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 11:57:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9818B37B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-146.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F41BB43E6A for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 723F366D83; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:57:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:57:30 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Ryan Petersen Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Filesystem snapshots Message-ID: <20020829185729.GA32639@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="opJtzjQTFsWo+cga" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:28:40AM -0500, Ryan Petersen wrote: > Hello, > I'll soon be building a large storage system where the filesystem snapshot > functionality would be helpful for doing backups. I haven't been able to > find too much information though. What is the general consensus on its > usability/stability? Would it be advisable to use this in a production > environment? FFS snapshots are only available in the 5.0-CURRENT development branch, therefore they are not considered production-ready. Kris --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9bm6ZWry0BWjoQKURAtrrAKDuPm2TjB8HOESr7IxRfSq0TGRV5ACgytPL 5Xngbaf2hoq4EBIGw8MSF7g= =zm14 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message