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> Perhaps Redhat could help to develop snapshots on XFS. It's not the only feature XFS is missing, but it's a start. Upstream has been working on adding more b
by cyphar 9y ago
> Perhaps Redhat could help to develop snapshots on XFS. It's not the only feature XFS is missing, but it's a start.
Upstream has been working on adding more btrfs-like features to XFS, but I believe that RHEL encourages using devicemapper snapshots (which you then format with XFS).
- 2ion 9y ago> Upstream has been working on adding more btrfs-like features to XFS, but I believe that RHEL encourages using devicemapper snapshots (which you then format with XFS). Exactly, mountable and mergable snapshots have been supported by a LVM/devicemapper stack for a long time.
- rbanffy 9y agoIt's still a bit more involved than the transparent snapshots ZFS and, to a lesser degree, BtrFS offer. I'm not happy with this and sincerely hope this position changes in the future.