On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 5:53 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn <ahferro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-03-16 02:51, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Nazar Mokrynskyi <na...@mokrynskyi.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Sounds like a really good idea! >>> >>> I'll try to implement in in my backup tool, but it might take some time >>> to >>> see real benefit from it (or no benefit:)). >> >> >> There is a catch. I'm not sure how much testing deleting 100 >> subvolumes at once gets. It should work. I haven't looked in xfstests >> to see how much of this is being tested. So it's possible you're >> testing it. So be ready. > > I've actually tested bulk removal of large numbers of snapshots multiple > times before (it's actually one of the things that isn't in xfstests that I > check when testing patches, I usually test power of two groups from 16 up to > 256 at a time). It works, but it may tie up most of the disk bandwidth for > a while depending on what type of storage you're using.
Good to know. -- Chris Murphy -- 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
