From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 9 15:55:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE7237B401 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 15:55:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24B8743F3F for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 15:55:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from me@farid-hajji.de) Received: (qmail 11995 invoked by uid 505); 9 May 2003 22:55:04 -0000 Received: from me@farid-hajji.de by dsl-mail by uid 502 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (spamassassin: 2.43. Clear:. Processed in 0.129599 secs); 09 May 2003 22:55:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reverse-213-146-115-183.dialin.kamp-dsl.de) (213.146.115.183) by dsl-mail.kamp.net with SMTP; 9 May 2003 22:55:04 -0000 From: Farid Hajji To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 00:55:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305100055.37190.me@farid-hajji.de> Subject: Are snapshots always consistent? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: me@farid-hajji.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 22:55:06 -0000 I'm somewhat confused about snapshots. Are snapshots (e.g. created with dump -L) supposed to be always in a consistent state? What happens if a snapshot is taken, while background fsck is fixing a filesystem? If snapshots are not always consistent, how can one be sure about dump -L output? Is it better to take a snapshot first, fsck it, and _then_ dump the snapshot without -L (how?)? Thanks, -Farid. -- Farid Hajji -- Unix Systems and Network Management. http://www.farid-hajji.net/address.html Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." --Edgar Allan Poe.