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From: Piavlo <piavka@cs.bgu.ac.il>
To: TARUISI Hiroaki <taruishi.hiroak@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: snapshot/subvolume removal
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:08:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4C1FEA.70109@cs.bgu.ac.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B4BC6D2.6030906@jp.fujitsu.com>

TARUISI Hiroaki wrote:
> Thanks for your comment.
>
> I think your request is reasonable but because there's
> no information about a hierachy of snapshots in filesystem,
> we cannot know it for now.
>
> In future, these information may be supplied by application
> programs which manage all snapshots or backups.
>   
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.

Thanks
Alex


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-12  7:08 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 [this message]
2010-01-12  8:04             ` TARUISI Hiroaki
2010-01-12  9:12             ` Adrian von Bidder
2010-01-12 11:03               ` Piavlo
2010-01-10 20:18       ` Chris Mason
2010-01-12  1:12         ` TARUISI Hiroaki

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