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From: Bruce Guenter <bruce@untroubled.org>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disk space accounting and subvolume delete
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 13:01:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100531190107.GA20103@untroubled.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikzNWS11qycrI94k69PFEZJWpAezwuOF6nmw_PF@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 01:02:07PM +0800, Yan, Zheng  wrote:
> Dropping a tree can be lengthy. It's not good to let sync wait for hours.
> For most linux FS, 'sync' just force an transaction/journal commit. I don't
> think they wait for large operations that can span multiple transactions to
> complete.

What happens to the consistency of the filesystem if a crash happens
during this process?

-- 
Bruce Guenter <bruce@untroubled.org>                http://untroubled.org/

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-31 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-10 18:23 Disk space accounting and subvolume delete Bruce Guenter
2010-05-10 18:50 ` Josef Bacik
2010-05-11  0:10 ` Yan, Zheng 
2010-05-11 15:45   ` Bruce Guenter
2010-05-12  5:02     ` Yan, Zheng 
2010-05-12 21:56       ` Mike Fleetwood
2010-05-31 19:01       ` Bruce Guenter [this message]
2010-05-31 20:34         ` Mike Fedyk
2010-06-01  2:32         ` Yan, Zheng 

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