Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:06:47 -0500 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Csaba Henk <csaba-ml@creo.hu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Subject: Re: backup strategies Message-ID: <1130792807.1396.21.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> In-Reply-To: <20051031195324.GA3266@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20051031184123.8C39116A429@hub.freebsd.org> <1130787452.1396.16.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> <20051031195324.GA3266@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 13:53 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Oct 31), Paul Mather said:
> > The other thing to note about FreeBSD snapshots that I don't think
> > has been mentioned is that they are only supported on UFS2
> > filesystems, meaning they are unavailable under FreeBSD 4.x and
> > earlier (or on older filesystems created by those older versions of
> > FreeBSD).
>
> Snapshots work just fine on UFS1 filesystems; you just need to be
> running 5.x or newer.
You are correct, sir; ignore me---I must have been thinking of native
extended attributes support...
(Unfortunately, this still means you can't take snapshots on 4.x and
earlier, though, which is a shame because I find the feature very
handy.)
Cheers,
Paul.
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