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From: Mike Fleetwood <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>
To: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Atomic file data replace API
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 13:55:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikE2Rr3KdGA5bN77o+BmkD6nsBvDasgx4085MiL@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=paCEdAFZkHWTSwTCjYavMPOaGY8MsLknryk=_@mail.gmail.com>

On 6 January 2011 20:01, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does btrfs support atomic file data replaces?

Hi Olaf,

Yes btrfs does support atomic replace, since kernel 2.6.30 circa June 2009. [1]

Special handling was added to ext3, ext4, btrfs (and probably other
Linux FSs) for your replace-via-truncate and the alternative
replace-via-rename application patterns.  Try reading "Delayed
allocation and the zero-length file problem" article and comments by
Ted Ts'o for further discussion. [2]

Mike
-- 
[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5a3f23d515a2ebf0c750db80579ca57b28cbce6d
[2] http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/12/delayed-allocation-and-the-zero-length-file-problem/

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-07 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-06 20:01 Atomic file data replace API Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 13:55 ` Mike Fleetwood [this message]
2011-01-07 14:01   ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 14:10     ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 14:58 ` Chris Mason
2011-01-07 15:01   ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 15:05     ` Chris Mason
2011-01-07 15:08       ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 15:13         ` Chris Mason
2011-01-07 15:17           ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 16:12             ` Chris Mason
2011-01-07 16:19               ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 16:26               ` Hubert Kario
2011-01-07 19:29                 ` Chris Mason
2011-01-08 14:40                   ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-26 18:30                     ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-26 19:30                       ` Chris Mason
2011-01-26 21:56                         ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 16:32             ` Massimo Maggi
2011-01-07 16:34               ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 19:29                 ` Thomas Bellman
2011-01-08 14:36                   ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-08 21:43                     ` Thomas Bellman
2011-01-09 15:16                       ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-09 18:56                         ` Thomas Bellman
2011-01-09 19:06                           ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-09 20:13                           ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-08  1:11   ` Phillip Susi

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