On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 04:15:08PM +0100, Jehan PROCACCIA wrote:
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 
> >Do your client OS/filesystem combos support ext3 snapshots?
> >Some recent ones do?  If so, you could set things up to make a
> >snapshot just before the amdump, use dump on that non-changing
> >snapshot, then delete the snapshot after the dump.
> > 
> >
> No, I never tried ext3 snapshots ! I never heard of it :-( , any links 
> of where I can get information on that ?
> I suppose it depends on kernel versions ? on my redhat4 it's 
> 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp.
> indeed that might be a good solution .
> 

I've not used the feature.  I think the command was snapfs and "may"
have required the filesystems to be managed under LVM.

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