Dump questions

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sun Feb 21 06:14:51 UTC 2010


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.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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