From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Mason Subject: Re: snapshot-removal - timeline ? Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:33:07 -0400 Message-ID: <20090804183307.GG5693@think> References: <1552F85577A149D68B0BFF2A44E0FF0A@bui.materna.com> <20090803130412.GB3570@think> <10F3F7E4-276B-49C3-B944-61320D634C93@karlsbakk.net> <20090803161800.GB5492@think> <7EC11C2E-889E-42A4-80D8-EA7E80F4963D@karlsbakk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-btrfs To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk Return-path: In-Reply-To: <7EC11C2E-889E-42A4-80D8-EA7E80F4963D@karlsbakk.net> List-ID: On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:52:51AM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > On 3. aug.. 2009, at 18.18, Chris Mason wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 04:33:13PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > >>On 3. aug.. 2009, at 15.04, Chris Mason wrote: > >> > >>>On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 02:03:37PM +0200, Roland wrote: > >>>>Hello, > >>>> > >>>>is there a timeline for snapshot-removal ? > >>>> > >>>>i did intensively play with btrfs about a year ago and was really > >>>>impressed, but i quit due to the lack of snapshot removal. > >>>>(i tried btrfs mostly because of the snapshot feature) > >>>> > >>>>has there been some progress on this or is there a timeline when > >>>>this feature will be available ? > >>>> > >>>>i wonder if it`s just so hard to implement or if it`s just too low > >>>>priority on the todo list..... maybe both ? ;) > >>> > >>>Its a little of both ;) The plan is to have this in 2.6.32 > >> > >> > >>Last I heard, someone was saying .31... Is it being moved? > > > >Yes, it was delayed so we could finalize the other changes in .31. > > > It's strange that such a small thing should be delayed so much. If > snapshot removal was working, I'm quite sure we might get more users > and thereby more stable code faster. It's a small feature but it gets deep into the difficult parts of the dentry cache to do it right. So, it definitely isn't easy. -chris