From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Samuel Subject: Re: Questions regarding COW-related behaviors Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:05:51 +1100 Message-ID: <4CD8824F.6020206@csamuel.org> References: <71EA287F-BE05-4BD8-A474-58A68B0FC6A3@gmail.com> <20101108224537.GA8950@flcl.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: The development of BTRFS Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101108224537.GA8950@flcl.lan> List-ID: 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 -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC