From: Johannes Weiner <hannes-kernel@saeurebad.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Versioning file system
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:20:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070616112004.GA22307@saeurebad.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706151558180.27993@blackbox.fnordora.org>
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:01:14PM -0700, alan wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Kok, Auke wrote:
> ><snip>
> >
> >have you looked into ext3cow? it allows you to take snapshots of the
> >entire ext3 fs at a single point, and rollback / extract snapshots at any
> >time later. This may be sufficient for you and the implementation seems to
> >be rather stable already.
>
> As long as there is only one person using the file system. Rolling back
> the entire filesystem may work well for you, but screw up something else
> someone else is doing.
>
> And what kind of rights do you have to assign to the user to do that level
> of snapshot and rollback? You have to assume that there are more than one
> user and that they have less than root privileges.
Perhaps BTRFS might be of interest where you can have a subvolume for every
user: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/12/242
Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-16 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-15 22:23 Versioning file system Jack Stone
2007-06-15 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-15 22:51 ` alan
2007-06-15 22:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-15 23:06 ` alan
2007-06-16 8:11 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-16 9:46 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-16 10:12 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-16 13:15 ` Mark Williamson
2007-06-16 19:57 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-16 16:49 ` Jan Harkes
2007-06-16 20:03 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-16 19:38 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-16 20:08 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-16 21:25 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-16 20:39 ` Jan Harkes
2007-06-16 20:43 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-16 22:17 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-17 2:18 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-17 2:39 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-17 22:11 ` Dale Amon
2007-06-16 21:06 ` Dale Amon
2007-06-16 11:42 ` Graham Murray
2007-06-16 14:53 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-18 9:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-06-18 9:54 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-18 10:13 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-18 14:01 ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-18 16:16 ` alan
2007-06-18 17:29 ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-18 17:33 ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-18 20:30 ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-18 20:50 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-06-18 17:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-04 17:32 ` Erik Mouw
2007-07-04 20:47 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-05 17:55 ` Erik Mouw
2007-07-05 13:57 ` John Stoffel
2007-07-05 14:23 ` Chris Mason
2007-07-05 17:57 ` Erik Mouw
2007-06-18 15:32 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-18 23:18 ` Bron Gondwana
2007-09-29 17:44 ` Sorin Faibish
2007-06-15 22:52 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-16 8:25 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 18:03 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-19 19:06 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:03 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-19 20:08 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:15 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-19 20:27 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:34 ` John Stoffel
2007-06-19 20:38 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-06-19 21:02 ` John Stoffel
2007-06-19 19:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-19 19:12 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 19:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-19 19:22 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:10 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-19 20:14 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 20:31 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-20 8:34 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-06-19 21:50 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-19 22:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-20 8:05 ` Ph. Marek
2007-06-19 20:43 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-06-19 22:07 ` david
2007-06-19 22:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-19 23:07 ` Jan Harkes
2007-06-19 23:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-19 22:21 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-06-19 23:35 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-20 0:27 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-06-20 5:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-20 17:04 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-20 17:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-20 17:33 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-15 22:57 ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-15 23:01 ` alan
2007-06-16 11:20 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
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2007-06-18 16:37 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-18 16:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-18 17:56 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-06-19 3:10 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-19 7:49 ` Jack Stone
2007-06-19 7:58 ` Bron Gondwana
2007-06-20 2:43 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-19 9:09 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-06-19 16:52 ` Jakub Narebski
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2007-06-18 20:54 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-06-18 21:08 ` alan
2007-06-18 21:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-18 21:34 ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-18 22:10 ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-18 22:26 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-18 21:24 ` Brad Boyer
2007-06-19 3:15 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-18 22:34 ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-18 22:56 ` alan
2007-06-19 7:01 ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-18 22:48 ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-18 23:00 ` alan
2007-06-19 7:05 ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-19 16:52 ` Jeremy Allison
2007-06-19 16:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-18 22:47 ` alan
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