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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <tch@virtall.com>
To: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 5 _thousand_ snapshots? even 160? (was: device balance times)
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 09:14:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9cf38edae6c01b900d4ea0068d2dcfdd@admin.virtall.com> (raw)

> But 5000 snapshots?
> 
> Why?  Are you *TRYING* to test btrfs until it breaks, or TRYING to
> demonstrate a balance taking an entire year?

Remember a given btrfs filesystem is not necessarily a backup 
destination for data from one source.

It can be, say, 30 or 60 daily snapshots, plus several monthly, for each 
data source * number of data sources.

So while it probably will make a difference (5000 snapshots from one 
source, vs 5000 snapshots made from many sources) for balance times, I 
wouldn't call a large number of snapshots that unusual.

-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://www.sslrack.com


             reply	other threads:[~2014-10-22  7:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-22  7:14 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2014-10-22  7:41 ` 5 _thousand_ snapshots? even 160? (was: device balance times) Duncan
2014-10-22 20:08   ` Zygo Blaxell
2014-10-22 20:37     ` Robert White
2014-10-23  3:09       ` Zygo Blaxell
2014-10-23  4:30     ` Chris Murphy
2014-10-23  5:18       ` Robert White
2014-10-23  8:38         ` Duncan
2014-10-23 13:15         ` Zygo Blaxell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-10-21 18:59 device balance times Tomasz Chmielewski
2014-10-21 20:14 ` Piotr Pawłow
2014-10-21 20:44   ` Arnaud Kapp
2014-10-22  1:10     ` 5 _thousand_ snapshots? even 160? (was: device balance times) Robert White
2014-10-22  4:02       ` Zygo Blaxell
2014-10-22  4:05       ` Duncan

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