Hello all,
On 2012-02-23 T 19:13 +0700 Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Anand Jain wrote:
>
> > and what you will notice is autosnap snapshots are named
> > using uuid.
> >
> > Main reason to drop time-stamp based names is that,
> > - test (clicking on Take-snapshot button) which took more
> > than one snapshot per second was failing.
> > - a more descriptive creation time is available using a
> > command line option as in the example below.
> > -----
> > # btrfs su list -t tag=@minute,parent=/btrfs/sv1 /btrfs
> > /btrfs/.autosnap/6c0dabfa-5ddb-11e1-a8c1-0800271feb99 Thu Feb 23 13:01:18
> > 2012 /btrfs/sv1 @minute
> > /btrfs/.autosnap/5669613e-5ddd-11e1-a644-0800271feb99 Thu Feb 23 13:15:01
> > 2012 /btrfs/sv1 @minute
> > -----
> > As of now code for time-stamp as autosnap snapshot name is
> > commented out, if more people wanted it to be a time-stamp
> > based names, I don't mind having that way. Please do let me
> > know.
>
> For me the main bonus point of having timestamp in names in
> the abiility to sort it by creation date by simply using "ls".
> As for the more-than-one-click-per-second problem, in my
> script I simply let it fail and return informative-enough
> error message.
>
> A workaround would be adding nanosecond timestamp, or put the
> UUID AFTER the time stamp, e.g:
> /btrfs/.autosnap/@minute_20120223_131501_123456_5669613e-5ddd-11e1-a644-0800271feb99
I wonder, if this is not mixing several aspects / requirements:
1. unique snapshot numbering
2. storing the time stamp of a snapshot
3. human visible order of snapshots
Thus we have chosen a different solution in our "snapper"
approach (as announced here in Aug 2011):
- the snapshot number is a simple integer
-> human visible order of snapshots
- all metadata is stored in an XML file associated to
this snapshot
- this requires that the btrfs snapshot itself is
in a subdirectory of the snapshot-numbered directory.
Example:
----------------------------< snip >----------------------------
2012-02-23 15:02 (0) ~
naxos root (5) # tree -x /.snapshots/6/
/.snapshots/6/
|-- filelist-5.txt
|-- info.xml
`-- snapshot
2012-02-23 15:02 (0) ~
naxos root (5) # cat /.snapshots/6/info.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<snapshot>
<type>post</type>
<num>6</num>
<date>2012-02-23 11:32:59</date>
<pre_num>5</pre_num>
<cleanup>number</cleanup>
</snapshot>
----------------------------< snap >----------------------------
With introducing a store for meta information, the requirements
listed above (1-3) can be fulfilled.
Shouldn't the autosnap implementation include a similar
option and/or functionality? Or does it already?
Feel free to copy what snapper does:)
so long -
MgE
P.S.: For those interested in the details: snapshots 5 and 6 are
a pre-post-pair, which enclose the real action: a timezone
change. "filelist-5.txt" contains the file which differ between
5 and 6 for faster access from the management layer.
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