From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs: a copy on write, snapshotting FS
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:34:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070613163405.GE28279@think.oraclecorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18032.5991.475110.794691@stoffel.org>
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:12:23PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
> >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> writes:
[ nod ]
> Also, I think you're wrong here when you state that making a snapshot
> (sub-volume?) RO just requires you to set the quota to 1 block. What
> is to stop me from writing 1 block to a random file that already
> exists?
It's copy on write, so changing one block means allocating a new one and
putting the new contents there. The old blocks don't become available
for reuse until the transaction commits.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-13 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-12 16:10 [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs: a copy on write, snapshotting FS Chris Mason
2007-06-12 19:53 ` Mike Snitzer
2007-06-12 20:14 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-13 3:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-13 10:17 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-13 3:46 ` John Stoffel
2007-06-13 10:35 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-13 14:00 ` John Stoffel
2007-06-13 14:54 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-13 16:12 ` John Stoffel
2007-06-13 16:34 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2007-06-13 16:25 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2007-06-14 18:20 ` Chuck Lever
2007-06-14 18:48 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-15 17:17 ` Chuck Lever
2007-06-14 18:29 ` Florian D.
2007-06-14 19:13 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-15 19:08 ` Florian D.
2007-06-15 19:11 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-15 20:46 ` Florian D.
2007-06-15 20:51 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-15 22:03 ` Florian D.
2007-06-16 0:54 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-16 9:31 ` Florian D.
2007-06-18 14:29 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-18 14:41 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-18 14:41 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-18 17:37 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2007-06-18 20:08 ` John Stoffel
2007-06-19 9:11 ` Pádraig Brady
2007-06-19 10:01 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2007-06-19 18:20 ` david
2007-06-20 8:41 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2007-06-19 12:04 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-19 12:04 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-19 14:00 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2007-06-19 14:00 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2007-06-19 18:24 ` david
2007-06-19 18:28 ` Philipp Matthias Hahn
2007-06-19 18:28 ` Philipp Matthias Hahn
2007-06-20 8:44 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2007-06-20 9:18 ` Ph. Marek
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-13 5:45 Albert Cahalan
2007-06-13 12:00 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-13 16:14 ` Albert Cahalan
2007-06-13 16:57 ` Chris Mason
2007-06-14 6:59 ` Albert Cahalan
2007-06-14 12:30 ` Chris Mason
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