From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
To: "Lentes, Bernd" <bernd.lentes@helmholtz-muenchen.de>,
Btrfs ML <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: what mens gen and ogen in btrfs sub list / ?
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:39:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <605b45a5-cb80-a32f-0744-8441e46fb3a9@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <587892959.1863318.1648125512532.JavaMail.zimbra@helmholtz-muenchen.de>
On 24.03.22 г. 14:38 ч., Lentes, Bernd wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> i'd like to write a script in which, beneath other stuff, the oldest snapshot(s) are deleted.
> So i'm looking for a way to sort the list of the snapshots by date.
> I read the manpage and stumbled across gen and ogen of snapshots.
> But what does that mean and how can the values be interpreted ?
> Or is there another way to list the snapshots by e.g. creation date ?
>
> OS: Ubuntu 20.04
> btrfs-progs: 5.4.1-2
>
> root@nc-mcd:~/skripte# btrfs sub list -tcg /
> ID gen cgen top level path
> -- --- ---- --------- ----
> 273 1060462 170590 5 snapshots/pre_upgrade_27112020
> 279 1060464 1006204 5 snapshots/root-19102021
>
>
> Thanks.
So 'gen' is the current transid of the volume, that is the last
transaction into which something changed i.e a file was
created/modified/deleted etc.
cgen OTOH is the transaction when the given subvolume was created.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-14 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-24 12:38 what mens gen and ogen in btrfs sub list / ? Lentes, Bernd
2022-04-14 11:32 ` Andrew Skretvedt
2022-04-14 13:39 ` Nikolay Borisov [this message]
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