On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:52:51AM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > On 3. aug.. 2009, at 18.18, Chris Mason wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 04:33:13PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > >>On 3. aug.. 2009, at 15.04, Chris Mason wrote: > >> > >>>On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 02:03:37PM +0200, Roland wrote: > >>>>Hello, > >>>> > >>>>is there a timeline for snapshot-removal ? > >>>> > >>>>i did intensively play with btrfs about a year ago and was really > >>>>impressed, but i quit due to the lack of snapshot removal. > >>>>(i tried btrfs mostly because of the snapshot feature) > >>>> > >>>>has there been some progress on this or is there a timeline when > >>>>this feature will be available ? > >>>> > >>>>i wonder if it`s just so hard to implement or if it`s just too low > >>>>priority on the todo list..... maybe both ? ;) > >>> > >>>Its a little of both ;) The plan is to have this in 2.6.32 > >> > >> > >>Last I heard, someone was saying .31... Is it being moved? > > > >Yes, it was delayed so we could finalize the other changes in .31. > > > It's strange that such a small thing should be delayed so much. If > snapshot removal was working, I'm quite sure we might get more users > and thereby more stable code faster.
It's a small feature but it gets deep into the difficult parts of the dentry cache to do it right. So, it definitely isn't easy. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
