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Re: Snapshots in tmpfs
On Feb,Tuesday 28 2012, at 3:15 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <4F4C09C6.3040902%bsdstammtisch.at@localhost>,
> Manuel Wiesinger <manuel%bsdstammtisch.at@localhost> wrote:
>> As it seems, implementing the snapshot feature does not really pay off.
>> Other projects seem to be much more rewarding for me.
>>
>> An attractive alternative, is the ext3 journaling feature. It seems to
>> be an appropriate amount of work, even more interesting and much more
>> useful.
>>
>> Is there anybody already working on it?
>
> No, I don't think anyone is. Even better, how about getting zfs in a working
> state?
I can help with both zfs and ext3. If requirement for your thesis is to design
and implement something new then implementing DRBD like network raid on top of
device-mapper would be amazing. [1], [2]
Ext3 port would require implementation of journal-block device which is used
for logging in ext3.
[1] www.drbd.org
[2] http://wiki.freebsd.org/HAST
Regards
Adam.
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