25 Jun
2004
25 Jun
'04
4:01 p.m.
Joe Schmoe non_secure@yahoo.com writes:
Well, I am all for making my own FreeBSD based NAS system, but again, I really want (need ?) the nice features like snapmirror and snapshot copies, and unmounting the volume every time I want to take a snapshot seems unreasonable.
FreeBSD-5.x supports filesystem snapshots. I haven't played with them too much but they seem very quick to create, about a second or two, and I didn't have to take the filesystem offline or anything. See mksnap_ffs(8) and
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/snapshots.html