From: Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>
To: The development of BTRFS <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Questions regarding COW-related behaviors
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:05:51 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD8824F.6020206@csamuel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101108224537.GA8950@flcl.lan>
On 09/11/10 09:45, Sean Bartell wrote:
> No, unless the user request a snapshot. I'm assuming you're not talking
> about tools like PhotoRec, that try to reassemble files from whatever
> disk data looks valid.
It may be that he has confused it with nilfs which does have
automatic periodic checkpointing (and expiry thereof) based on
a user configurable policy. These can be converted to persistent
snapshots from the command line.
cheers,
Chris
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Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-08 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-08 14:23 Questions regarding COW-related behaviors João Eduardo Luís
2010-11-08 17:31 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-11-08 22:45 ` Sean Bartell
2010-11-08 23:05 ` Chris Samuel [this message]
2010-11-09 14:18 ` João Eduardo Luís
2010-11-09 19:37 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
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