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On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:50 PM, David Pottage da...@electric-spoon.com wrote:
On 06/12/10 12:41, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
I'd like to know if there has been any discussion about adding
Hello,
I'd like to know if there has been any discussion about adding a new
feature to write (add) data at an offset, but without overwriting
existing data, or re-writing the existing data. Essentially, in-place
addition/removal of data to a file at a place other than the end of
the file.
Some
Excerpts from Nirbheek Chauhan's message of 2010-12-06 07:41:16 -0500:
Hello,
I'd like to know if there has been any discussion about adding a new
feature to write (add) data at an offset, but without overwriting
existing data, or re-writing the existing data. Essentially, in-place
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote:
Excerpts from Nirbheek Chauhan's message of 2010-12-06 07:41:16 -0500:
[snip]
Some possible use-cases of such a feature would be:
(a) Databases (currently hack around this by allocating sparse files)
(b) Delta-patching
Excerpts from Nirbheek Chauhan's message of 2010-12-06 14:14:59 -0500:
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote:
Excerpts from Nirbheek Chauhan's message of 2010-12-06 07:41:16 -0500:
[snip]
Some possible use-cases of such a feature would be:
(a) Databases
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan
nirbheek.chau...@gmail.com wrote:
As an aside, my primary motivation for this was that doing an
incremental backup of things like git bare repositories and databases
using btrfs subvolume snapshots is expensive w.r.t. disk space. Even
though
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan
nirbheek.chau...@gmail.com wrote:
As an aside, my primary motivation for this was that doing an
incremental backup of things like git bare repositories and databases
using
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan
nirbheek.chau...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan
nirbheek.chau...@gmail.com wrote:
As an aside, my primary motivation for this was that
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan
nirbheek.chau...@gmail.com wrote:
But the behaviour of --inplace is not entirely to write out *only* the
blocks that have changed. From what I could make out, it does the
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote:
Excerpts from Nirbheek Chauhan's message of 2010-12-06 07:41:16 -0500:
Hello,
I'd like to know if there has been any discussion about adding a new
feature to write (add) data at an offset, but without overwriting
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