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Date:      Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:24:15 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Albert Shih <shih@math.jussieu.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Snapshot ffs
Message-ID:  <20041108232415.GB62123@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041108223627.GA82184@math.jussieu.fr>
References:  <20041108223627.GA82184@math.jussieu.fr>

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On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:36:27PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote:
> Hi
>=20
> I've read in=20
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html
>=20
> in News section
>=20
> 	FFS: The FFS file system now supports background fsck(8) operations (for
> 	faster crash recovery) and file system snapshots.
>=20
> But why in the /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot we can read
>=20
> >As is detailed in the operational information below, snapshots
> >are definitely alpha-test code and are NOT yet ready for production
> >use. Much remains to be done to make them really useful, but I
>=20
> Finaly we can use for production or not ?=20

That text is out of date.  snapshots largely seem to work fine,
although there have been occasional bug reports.

Kris

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