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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: "krzf83@gmail.com" <krzf83@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: checkpoints to often
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:35:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301582070-sup-5170@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinr4G=F6msPF=oVDrCU1uz2b-q8Do4f5htzP=ep@mail.gmail.com>

Excerpts from krzf83@gmail.com's message of 2011-03-31 10:30:51 -0400:
> There should be a way to make automatic checkpoints less frequent. On
> the busy ssd I have about 7 cp every second. If it were for example
> once every 5 minutes then one could set garbage removal every few
> days.
> Also garbage removal should have option to clean only if like 90% of
> drive is used. there is no need to remove cp-s when there is still
> many GB of space left.

I'm wondering how you're measuring check points?  Btrfs does a
transaction commit ever 30 seconds, so finding 7 commits per second
seems strange.

We do have a lighter weight commit that is done for fsyncs, but this is
not a full check point.

There's no garbage removal in btrfs, we use reference counting instead
of a traditional log structured design.

-chris

      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-31 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-31 14:30 checkpoints to often krzf83@gmail.com 
2011-03-31 14:35 ` Chris Mason [this message]

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