Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks

Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de)
Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:27:56 +0200


On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Stelian Pop wrote:

> Come on, who REALLY expects to have consistent backups without
> either unmounting the filesystem or using some snapshot techniques ?

The who uses [s|g]tar, cpio, afio, dsmc (Tivoli distributed storage
manager), ...

Low-level snapshots don't do any good, they just freeze the "halfway
there" on-disk structure.
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