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Re: HEADS UP NetBSD lvm support



On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:03:52PM +0200, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
> >    2) Write snapshot driver only skeleton was written yet.
> 
> We already have fss(4) for file system snapshots.
> What is the advantage of this driver over fss?

It naturally integrates into the backing store, e.g. it can allocate it
space from the pgs on-demand.

Joerg


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