Le 07/02/2017 à 21:36, Kai Krakow a écrit :
> [...]
> I think I've read that btrfs snapshots do not guarantee single point in
> time snapshots - the snapshot may be smeared across a longer period of
> time while the kernel is still writing data. So parts of your writes
> may still end up in the snapshot after issuing the snapshot command,
> instead of in the working copy as expected.


I don't think so for three reasons :
- it's so far away from admin's expectations that someone would have
documented this in "man btrfs-subvolume",
- the CoW nature of Btrfs makes this trivial : it only has to keep old
versions of data and the corresponding tree for it to work instead of
unlinking them,
- the backup server I referred to restarted a PostgreSQL system from
snapshots about one thousand time now without a single problem while
being almost continuously being updated by streaming replication.

Lionel
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