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From: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
To: Joseph Dunn <jdunn14@gmail.com>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: btrfs seed question
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:18:01 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff596f2f-7232-4ee0-7967-6888236cc831@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171011204759.1848abd7@olive.ig.local>



On 10/12/2017 08:47 AM, Joseph Dunn wrote:
> After seeing how btrfs seeds work I wondered if it was possible to push
> specific files from the seed to the rw device.  I know that removing
> the seed device will flush all the contents over to the rw device, but
> what about flushing individual files on demand?
> 
> I found that opening a file, reading the contents, seeking back to 0,
> and writing out the contents does what I want, but I was hoping for a
> bit less of a hack.
> 
> Is there maybe an ioctl or something else that might trigger a similar
> action?

   You mean to say - seed-device delete to trigger copy of only the 
specified or the modified files only, instead of whole of seed-device ? 
What's the use case around this ?


Thanks, Anand


> Thanks,
> -Joseph
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-12  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-12  0:47 btrfs seed question Joseph Dunn
2017-10-12  4:18 ` Anand Jain [this message]
2017-10-12 13:20   ` Joseph Dunn
2017-10-12 14:32     ` Chris Murphy
2017-10-12 14:44       ` Joseph Dunn
2017-10-12 15:30         ` Chris Murphy
2017-10-12 15:50           ` Joseph Dunn
2017-11-03  8:03             ` Kai Krakow
2017-10-12 15:55           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-10-13  2:52         ` Anand Jain
2017-11-03  7:56     ` Kai Krakow

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