From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
adilger@sun.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Notes on support for multiple devices for a single filesystem
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:26:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1229549184.27170.88.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac3eb2510812171320i414d89d4x9840954275774d51@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 22:20 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 21:58, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 11:53 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > There are other bits and pieces like high speed front end caching
> > devices that would be difficult in MD/LVM, but since I don't have that
> > coded yet I suppose they don't really count...
>
> Features like the very nice and useful directory-based snapshots would
> also not be possible with simple block-based multi-devices, right?
At least for btrfs, the snapshotting is independent from the
multi-device code, and you still get snapshotting on single device
filesystems.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-17 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-20 12:18 Btrfs trees for linux-next Chris Mason
2008-12-11 2:34 ` Chris Mason
2008-12-11 3:14 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-12-11 4:06 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-11 5:55 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-12-11 14:43 ` Chris Mason
2008-12-15 21:03 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-12-15 22:55 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-16 1:37 ` Chris Mason
2008-12-16 1:39 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-17 13:23 ` Notes on support for multiple devices for a single filesystem Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-17 14:50 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-17 15:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-17 15:33 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-17 14:53 ` Chris Mason
2008-12-17 19:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-17 20:58 ` Chris Mason
2008-12-17 21:20 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-17 21:26 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2008-12-17 21:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-12-18 21:22 ` Bryan Henderson
2008-12-17 21:24 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-12-17 21:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-12-17 21:41 ` Chris Mason
2008-12-22 1:59 ` Liu Hui
2008-12-17 22:04 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-12-17 22:19 ` Dave Kleikamp
[not found] <e1f6055f0812181336q105b4ebcy81d72edd2a35baa8@mail.gmail.com>
2008-12-19 19:03 ` Bryan Henderson
2008-12-19 19:30 ` Chris Mason
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