diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/ufs_snapshots.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/ufs_snapshots.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ae5f20dbfe --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/ufs_snapshots.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +=== Enabling Snapshots on Filesystems Using Journaled Soft Updates + +Contact: Marshall Kirk McKusick + +This project has made UFS/FFS filesystem snapshots avaiable when running with journaled soft updates. +The details of this project were link:https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2022-10-2022-12/#_enabling_snapshots_on_filesystems_using_journaled_soft_updates[described in the 2022 fourth quarter report]. + +This project had two milestones: + +The first milestone of this project was to make it possible to take snapshots when running with journaled soft updates and to use them for doing background dumps on a live filesystem. +Background dumps are requested by using the -L flag to man:dump[8]. +This milestone was completed in Q4 of 2022 and was made available in the 13.2 release as link:https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/#_enabling_snapshots_on_filesystems_using_journaled_soft_updates_in_13_2[described in the 2023 first quarter report]. + +The second milestone of this project was to do a background check using a snapshot on a filesystem running with journaled soft updates. +This milestone was completed in the third quarter of 2023 in time to be included as part of the 14.0 release. +It was also made available in the 13.2-STABLE release. + +Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation