On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:00:49PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > >>I'm worried about the use case where we have: > >> > >> * periodic automated snapshots > >> * periodic automated deletion of old snapshots > >> * periodic send for backup > >> > >>The automated deletion doesn't want to error out if send is in progress, it > >>just wants the deletion to happen in the background. > > > >I'd give the precedence to the 'backup' process before the 'clean old > >snapshots', because it can do more harm if the snapshot is removed > >meanwhile without any possibility to recover. > > Right, we don't want either process to stop with an error. We just want > them to continue happily and do the right thing...
... if everything goes without errors. Not like send going out of memory, send through network has a glitch, send to a file runs out of space, and has to be restarted. Is this too unrealistic to happen? -- 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
