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From: "Brian J. Murrell" <brian@interlinx.bc.ca>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: efficiency of btrfs cow
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 11:18:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D73B3EF.6090407@interlinx.bc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299428248.15017.13.camel@ayu>

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On 11-03-06 11:17 AM, Calvin Walton wrote:
> 
> To add a bit to this: if you *do not* use the --inplace option on rsync,
> rsync will rewrite the entire file, instead of updating the existing
> file!

Of course.  As I mentioned to Fajar previously, I am indeed using
--inplace when copying from the existing archive to the new btrfs archive.

> This of course negates some of the benefits of btrfs's COW support when
> doing incremental backups.

Absolutely.

b.



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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-06 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-06 15:46 efficiency of btrfs cow Brian J. Murrell
2011-03-06 16:02 ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2011-03-06 16:11   ` Brian J. Murrell
2011-03-06 16:17   ` Calvin Walton
2011-03-06 16:18     ` Brian J. Murrell [this message]
2011-03-06 17:22   ` Freddie Cash
2011-03-06 16:06 ` Calvin Walton
2011-03-06 16:17   ` Brian J. Murrell
2011-03-23 12:39   ` Brian J. Murrell
2011-03-23 15:53     ` Chester
2011-03-23 16:19       ` Brian J. Murrell
2011-03-23 17:36     ` Kolja Dummann

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