Snapshot ffs

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:36:27PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've read in 
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html
> 
> in News section
> 
> 	FFS: The FFS file system now supports background fsck(8) operations (for
> 	faster crash recovery) and file system snapshots.
> 
> But why in the /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot we can read
> 
> >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
> 
> Finaly we can use for production or not ? 

That text is out of date.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

Kris
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