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Snapshot Disk Layout

The snapshot disk layout is shown in Figure 5. We use the first few blocks in the snapshot disk for logging. To get the full benefit of logging, this log should be on some other disk. The maps for all the existing snapshots use a set of blocks reserved at the end of the snapshot disk to copy the original blocks. Each map contains information about the parent in the tree structured snapshots.

Figure 5: Snapshot Disk Layout
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Suresh Siddha 2001-09-13