From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Fedyk Subject: Re: Disk space accounting and subvolume delete Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 13:34:56 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20100510182352.GA21154@untroubled.org> <20100511154518.GA11710@untroubled.org> <20100531190107.GA20103@untroubled.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100531190107.GA20103@untroubled.org> List-ID: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Bruce Guenter = 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html