Hi nafisa, in order to understand how btrfs send code compares two btrfs file trees, you may read this: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg17731.html (where I am trying to understand it) and further down the thread. It's a very nice algorithm, actually.
Thanks, Alex. On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 9:54 AM, nafisa mandliwala <nafisa.mandliw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I needed help with understanding the snapshot comparison algorithm > that snapper uses and its shortcomings. From reading the code, what I > understood is that it does a block by block compare. I'm not very sure > if that's the best way to go about it. Also, since the send receive > code is still in development stages, is there a scope to add more > functionality to it? > -- > 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 -- 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
