From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
To: Eric Wheeler <bcache@lists.ewheeler.net>
Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bcachefs snapshots
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:09:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YPc7j2tW+ZkfBAeH@moria.home.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.21.2107200122520.27704@pop.dreamhost.com>
On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 01:28:33AM +0000, Eric Wheeler wrote:
> Hi Kent,
>
> I read your bcachefs snapshots doc recently, it looks like you've put a
> lot of thought into it. Is it ready for testing?
>
> We use a lot of btrfs snapshots of VM images but the performance is pretty
> poor and I'm looking forward to trying out bcachefs snapshots when it is
> ready to try out.
>
> We also have many dm-thin deployments backed by /dev/bcache0 volumes that
> work quite well, but dm-thin meta is always an ongoing maintenance issue.
> (Don't run out of dm-thin meta space or *boom*!)
>
> If bcachefs can replace dm-thin with loopback files (or even better,
> native bcachefs devices!) then I look forward to getting beyond
> dm-thin into something more scalable.
It's not ready just yet - but the initial performance numbers are _extremely_
encouraging, I'll be posting more soon!
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