From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@mikefedyk.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disk space accounting and subvolume delete
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 13:34:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTilyZTk9j54i7Dzj-eeQHyWE3G5tYwzPIznDdKy1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100531190107.GA20103@untroubled.org>
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Bruce Guenter <bruce@untroubled.org> =
wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 01:02:07PM +0800, Yan, Zheng =C2=A0wrote:
>> Dropping a tree can be lengthy. It's not good to let sync wait for h=
ours.
>> For most linux FS, 'sync' just force an transaction/journal commit. =
I don't
>> think they wait for large operations that can span multiple transact=
ions to
>> complete.
>
> What happens to the consistency of the filesystem if a crash happens
> during this process?
There's a good test case for you to try. Let us know what you find.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-31 20:34 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
2010-05-31 20:34 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2010-06-01 2:32 ` Yan, Zheng
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