On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:50:17AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> major headache.  Or one can make a snapshot, but would not that 
> snapshot take up as much space as the original?

No.  Solaris fssnap and Linux LVM snapshots are "copy on write".  The
physical manifestation of the snapshot is a chunk of disk somewhere
that is only touched when the original file system is modified.

> And how long would 
> it take to do a snapshot on a 40gig filesystem?

It is essentially instant.

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