On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <r...@karlsbakk.net> wrote: > > On 4. aug.. 2009, at 20.33, Chris Mason wrote: > >>> It's strange that such a small thing should be delayed so much. If >>> snapshot removal was working, I'm quite sure we might get more users >>> and thereby more stable code faster. >> >> It's a small feature but it gets deep into the difficult parts of the >> dentry cache to do it right. So, it definitely isn't easy. > > > I'd say it's a pretty elemetary feature to be able to remove something you > have created.
Snapshots are somewhat counter-intuitive in many respects: for instance, one snapshot-capable file-system performs writes to a dataset with snapshots _faster_ than to the same dataset w/o snapshots. Snapshot removal is no exception - it's a bit more complex than one would think. Regards, Andrey > I know, you can remove the files and so on, but still, having a bunch of old > and empty > snapshots lying around is no good. > > roy > -- > Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk > (+47) 97542685 > r...@karlsbakk.net > http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ > -- > I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det > er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av > idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og > relevante synonymer på norsk. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
