From: Gionatan Danti <g.danti@assyoma.it>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, g.danti@assyoma.it
Subject: Re: Reflink (cow) copy of busy files
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 12:40:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25ebcdb42650430d83d283435053efed@assyoma.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180225024727.GD30854@dastard>
Il 25-02-2018 03:47 Dave Chinner ha scritto:
>
> Yes, you have to freeze the filesystem to get a crash-consistent
> snapshot of the filesystem.
>
>
> You will end up with garbage.
Ok. Bonus question: am I right thinking this is due to the CoW copy not
being atomic (ie: the various extents being in different state until the
copy is finished)?
Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-25 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-24 18:20 Reflink (cow) copy of busy files Gionatan Danti
2018-02-24 22:07 ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-24 22:57 ` Gionatan Danti
2018-02-25 2:47 ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-25 11:40 ` Gionatan Danti [this message]
2018-02-25 21:13 ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-25 21:58 ` Gionatan Danti
2018-02-26 0:25 ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-26 7:19 ` Gionatan Danti
2018-02-26 7:58 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-02-26 8:26 ` Gionatan Danti
2018-02-26 17:26 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-02-26 21:23 ` Gionatan Danti
2018-02-26 21:31 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-02-26 21:39 ` Gionatan Danti
2018-02-27 0:33 ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-27 0:58 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-02-27 8:06 ` Gionatan Danti
2018-02-27 22:04 ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-28 7:08 ` Gionatan Danti
2018-02-28 17:07 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-02-28 18:27 ` Gionatan Danti
2018-02-26 20:29 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-02-26 21:28 ` Gionatan Danti
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