From: Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch>
To: Piavlo <piavka@cs.bgu.ac.il>
Cc: TARUISI Hiroaki <taruishi.hiroak@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: snapshot/subvolume removal
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:12:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001121012.52665@fortytwo.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B4C1FEA.70109@cs.bgu.ac.il>
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Hi,
On Tuesday 12 January 2010 08.08:26 Piavlo wrote:
> Maintaining snapshot hierarchy by external application is not reliable
> and error prone
> compared to maintaining it withing the btrfs itself,
> probably by adding the parent treeid field for every shapshot/subvolume.
What should, in your opinion, happen if the parent snapshot is deleted?
Orphan? Re-parent to parent of parent? I guess depending on application,
there may be more than one "right" solution.
cheers
-- vbi
--
When Al sends me patches, I apply them.
I worry what would happen if I didn't.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-12 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-05 21:18 snapshot/subvolume removal Piavlo
2010-01-06 0:30 ` TARUISI Hiroaki
2010-01-06 6:54 ` Adrian von Bidder
2010-01-06 8:33 ` Piavlo
2010-01-08 8:28 ` TARUISI Hiroaki
2010-01-09 22:01 ` Piavlo
2010-01-12 0:48 ` TARUISI Hiroaki
2010-01-12 7:08 ` Piavlo
2010-01-12 8:04 ` TARUISI Hiroaki
2010-01-12 9:12 ` Adrian von Bidder [this message]
2010-01-12 11:03 ` Piavlo
2010-01-10 20:18 ` Chris Mason
2010-01-12 1:12 ` TARUISI Hiroaki
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