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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How does Suse do live filesystem revert with btrfs?
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 16:26:48 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$4eac3$a2d76a4$a81e0fed$b4b18c9e@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20140505050459.GF10159@merlins.org

Marc MERLIN posted on Sun, 04 May 2014 22:04:59 -0700 as excerpted:

> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 01:36:39AM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
>>    I'm guessing it involves reflink copies of files from the snapshot
>> back to the "original", and then restarting affected services. That's
>> about the only other thing that I can think of, but it's got load of
>> race conditions in it (albeit difficult to hit in most cases, I
>> suspect).
> 
> Aaah, right, you can use a script to see the file differences between
> two snapshots, and then restore that with reflink if you can truly get a
> list of all changed files.
> However, that is indeed not atomic at all, even if faster than rsync.

Would send/receive help in such a script?

-- 
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman


  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-06 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-04  0:52 How does Suse do live filesystem revert with btrfs? Marc MERLIN
2014-05-04 23:26 ` Marc MERLIN
2014-05-05  0:36   ` Hugo Mills
2014-05-05  5:04     ` Marc MERLIN
2014-05-06 16:26       ` Duncan [this message]
2014-05-07  8:56         ` Marc MERLIN
2014-05-07 11:35           ` Duncan
2014-05-07 11:39             ` Marc MERLIN
2014-05-07 18:33               ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2014-05-05  3:23   ` Chris Murphy
2014-05-05  6:50     ` Marc MERLIN
2014-05-05  2:39 ` Duncan

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