From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 22:08:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2CCB16A403 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 22:08:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivoras@fer.hr) Received: from ls405.t-com.hr (ls405.t-com.hr [195.29.150.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFDB243CA2 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 22:08:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ivoras@fer.hr) Received: from ls422.t-com.hr (ls422.t-com.hr [195.29.150.237]) by ls405.t-com.hr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57BC914879B; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 23:08:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from ls422.t-com.hr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ls422.t-com.hr (Qmlai) with ESMTP id 3EE2AC9004E; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 23:08:46 +0100 (CET) X-Envelope-Sender-Info: KDHLkYIFXCRHG7zIR7FVXg8r97Mc7twV2106wJm8barLM8h8AQCz+5R6A554gM52 X-Envelope-Sender: ivoras@fer.hr Received: from [10.0.0.101] (83-131-163-190.adsl.net.t-com.hr [83.131.163.190])by ls422.t-com.hr (Qmlai) with ESMTP id 9FFA41308055; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 23:08:41 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4575EDEA.7020206@fer.hr> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:08:42 +0100 From: Ivan Voras User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anderson References: <20061201104955.GG9880@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <4575E597.1030306@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4575E597.1030306@centtech.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-imss-version: 2.044 X-imss-result: Passed X-imss-scores: Clean:81.49664 C:2 M:3 S:5 R:5 X-imss-settings: Baseline:1 C:1 M:1 S:1 R:1 (0.0000 0.0000) Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gsnapshot around ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:08:48 -0000 Eric Anderson wrote: > I've been thinking a bit about this for a while. It would be a great > tool to have, certainly. Does anyone have any particular > implementation ideas? It's actually not that hard to do. I really want the possibility to save snapshot data in a file (as opposed to dumping it to another GEOM device), and PJD had some file-muching kernel code so it's definitely doable right now. I'm still waiting on a "hot-plug" insertion of GEOM classes in between two classes to make it really usable for the common man :)