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Except for the part where you want integrity; AFAIK only xfs guarantees truly atomic snapshotting thanks to xfs_freeze. Furthermore, it's also (by an extremely
by wazoox 15y ago
Except for the part where you want integrity; AFAIK only xfs guarantees truly atomic snapshotting thanks to xfs_freeze.
Furthermore, it's also (by an extremely large margin) your best choice if you need a filesystem bigger than 16 TB.
- regularfry 15y agoAllegedly other filesystems have had a similar freeze added since then.
- wazoox 15y agoActually it was added to the vfs layer IIRC, around 2.6.30.