Rich Freeman on 12 Jul 2012 08:04:23 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] SteadyState/DriveShield for Ubuntu? 

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> wrote:
> I would look at putting the filesystem on LVM (I don’t think Linux
> btrfs or zfs support is there yet) and taking a snapshot when a user
> logs in. All changes made during that session go to the snapshot which
> can be thrown away when he or she logs out. Of course if you need data
> to persist across sessions then you need to set up some kind of
> persistent store.

I don't think LVM lets you revert a snapshot.  That's the whole
frustration with it.

Now, btrfs is a different story, as is ZFS I believe.

Rich
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