Fwd: Backref walking utilities

Fwd: Backref walking utilities

[João Eduardo Luís]

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My apologies. Sent this from my mobile and forgot to send it to the list.

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João Eduardo Luís
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> From: João Eduardo Luís <jecluis@gmail.com>
> Date: May 23, 2011 11:22:51 AM GMT+01:00
> To: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: Backref walking utilities
> 
> 
> On May 23, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Hugo Mills wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:02:21PM +0200, Arne Jansen wrote:
>>> Hi liubo,
>>> 
>>> On 23.05.2011 11:53, liubo wrote:
>>>> As one of my plans, I'm going to take this project over unless someone has been working on it.
>>> 
>>> Jan Schmidt has a patch for scrub nearly ready, that does some
>>> ref-walking to report affected files to the user. While this is
>>> kernel code and you're planning to add user-space code, it might
>>> still be possible to share some of it. Maybe the efforts can be
>>> coordinated.
>> 
>>  Another use for walking backrefs for a block (or an extent) is to
>> work out the differential size of a snapshot -- i.e. how much space
>> will be freed up if the snapshot is deleted. (You need to look at
>> every extent of every file in the snapshot, and work out whether those
>> extents are used anywhere outside the subvolume).
> 
> Which, I believe, would be useful if one wanted to merge two diverging snapshots into one.
> 
> As I'm doing some research on this topic, I would be thankful if anyone pointed me to Jan Schmidt's patch. 
> 
> 
> - J
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> João Eduardo Luís
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Re: Fwd: Backref walking utilities

[Phillip Susi]

On 5/23/2011 7:42 AM, Jo=E3o Eduardo Lu=EDs wrote:
> My apologies. Sent this from my mobile and forgot to send it to the l=
ist.

Rather than forward, you should edit the original mail as new and resen=
d=20
it to the list.  This avoids the unnecessary quotation and breaking the=
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thread.
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