Trading off safety and performance in the kernel
Trading off safety and performance in the kernel
Posted May 26, 2015 7:31 UTC (Tue) by toyotabedzrock (guest, #88005)Parent article: Trading off safety and performance in the kernel
There is a simple solution to this that Microsoft uses. A file attribute that gets set when the file is modified. When a backup occurs that bit is reset.
Posted May 27, 2015 22:31 UTC (Wed)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Trading off safety and performance in the kernel
This works great as long as you only have one generation of backups. More than that and bad things happen.