On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 04:57:28PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > It works at the block level. A block is read, checksum calculated and > compared to the previously recorded checksum for the block. It doesn't > know what it's reading, not even whether it's compressed or not. It > just becomes a stream of blocks without respect to the file or > subvolume. If there's a mismatch, then it does a lookup to find out > the owner: what subvolume/snapshot and filename/inode, what offset, > and so on - which is then how it figures out where the good copy is > (if any) and does self-healing. It pretty much runs at device max read > capability.
So given this, even with atimes there's only a write in the case where there's a mismatch, right? -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
