Re: kern/60456: FFS_NO_SNAPSHOT option is not entirely effective

"Jason Thorpe via gnats" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The following reply was made to PR kern/60456; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jason Thorpe <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected],
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Subject: Re: kern/60456: FFS_NO_SNAPSHOT option is not entirely effective
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:05:02 -0700

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 > On Jul 17, 2026, at 1:40=E2=80=AFPM, J. Hannken-Illjes via gnats =
 <[email protected]> wrote:
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 > This is intentional, option FFS_NO_SNAPSHOT disables snapshot creation =
 while
 > already existing snapshots continue to work to prevent snapshot =
 corruption
 > when running the wrong kernel.
 
 So how to I elide all of the FFS snapshot code from the kernel?  I =
 don=E2=80=99t use them, nor do I ever care to and want the memory =
 savings.
 
 -- thorpej
 
 
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 intentional, option FFS_NO_SNAPSHOT disables snapshot creation while<br> =
 already existing snapshots continue to work to prevent snapshot =
 corruption<br> when running the wrong =
 kernel.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So how to I =
 elide all of the FFS snapshot code from the kernel? &nbsp;I don=E2=80=99t =
 use them, nor do I ever care to and want the memory =
 savings.</div></div><br><div>
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