> Btrfs does not suffer from this problem as far as I
> can see because it
> uses reference counting rather than a ZFS-style dead
> list. I was just
> wondering if ZFS devs recognize the problem and are
> working on a
> solution.
Daniel,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but how does reference counting s
> "dp" == Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
dp> What if you don't want it to be a full fledged independent,
dp> but instead continue to share as much storage as possible with
dp> the original filesystem?
The Fine Man page says in very clear orange-and-black text that no
On Monday 21 July 2008 14:37, Will Murnane wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 17:22, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But that is not my point. My point is that there is no way to recover
> > the volume space used by my example file short of deleting both the
> > clone and the snapshot
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 17:22, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But that is not my point. My point is that there is no way to recover
> the volume space used by my example file short of deleting both the
> clone and the snapshot.
Not so. Use "zfs promote" to make the clone into a full
On Sunday 20 July 2008 21:38, Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote:
> > On Monday 14 July 2008 08:29, Akhilesh Mritunjai
> > wrote:
> > > Writable snapshots are called "clones" in zfs. So
> > infact, you have
> > > trees of snapshots and clones. Snapshots are
> > read-only, and you can
> > > create any number
> On Monday 14 July 2008 08:29, Akhilesh Mritunjai
> wrote:
> > Writable snapshots are called "clones" in zfs. So
> infact, you have
> > trees of snapshots and clones. Snapshots are
> read-only, and you can
> > create any number of "writable" clones from a
> snapshot, that behave
> > like a normal
On Monday 14 July 2008 08:29, Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote:
> Writable snapshots are called "clones" in zfs. So infact, you have
> trees of snapshots and clones. Snapshots are read-only, and you can
> create any number of "writable" clones from a snapshot, that behave
> like a normal filesystem and you
On Monday 14 July 2008 08:29, Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote:
> Still reading, but would like to correct one point.
>
> > * It would seem that ZFS is deeply wedded to the
> > concept of a single,
> > linear chain of snapshots. No snapshots of
> > snapshots, apparently.
> >http://blogs.sun.com/ahren
Still reading, but would like to correct one point.
> * It would seem that ZFS is deeply wedded to the
> concept of a single,
> linear chain of snapshots. No snapshots of
> snapshots, apparently.
>http://blogs.sun.com/ahrens/entry/is_it_magic
Writable snapshots are called "clones" in zfs. So
Greetings, filesystem algorithm fans.
The recent, detailed description of the versioned pointer method for
volume versioning is here:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2008-07/msg02663.html
I apologize humbly for the typo in the first sentence. Today's revision
of the proof of
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