I can only speak from experience, a snapshot can take up to a minute to create later on, so minutely snapshots are out of the question then... I have snapshots every hour and I have no problems with that at all :) On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Martin <m_btrfs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Devs, > > This is more a use case question of what is a good idea to do... > > > Can btrfs support snapshots of the filesystem at very regular intervals, > say minute by minute or even second by second? > > Or are there limits that will be hit with metadata overheads or > links/reference limits or CPU overheads if 'too many' snapshots/subvols > are made? > > If snapshots were to be taken once a minute and retained, what breaks first? > > > What are 'reasonable' (maximum) numbers for frequency and number of held > versions? > > > Thanks, > Martin > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
