Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:14:49 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Aiza <aiza21@comclark.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dump questions Message-ID: <20100221061449.GK70798@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <4B80ABBA.9000707@comclark.com> References: <4B80ABBA.9000707@comclark.com>
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In the last episode (Feb 21), Aiza said: > 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the > live running file system. > > Does this mean that a complete copy of the file > system is written to .snap directory? No; that would be a "copy". Snapshots only copy blocks as they are modified on the parent filesystem, so their size is determined by how much data is modified since the snapshot was created. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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