Re: snapshot-removal - timeline ?

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On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 01:18:33PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> On 4. aug.. 2009, at 20.33, Chris Mason wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
>
> I'd say it's a pretty elemetary feature to be able to remove something  
> you have created. I know, you can remove the files and so on, but still, 
> having a bunch of old and empty snapshots lying around is no good.
>

Patches are always welcome.

Josef
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