Holger Hoffstätte <holger.hoffstaette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:02:43 +0100, Kai Krakow wrote: > >> Is it technically possible to wait for a snapshot completely purged from >> disk? I imagine an option like "--wait" for btrfs delete subvolume. > > That would indeed be sweet (see pointer to patch by Garry Williams). > > In the meantime have you tried issuing a simple "sync" in your script > after every snapshot deletion? I've observed that this kicks the cleaner > into action. I was under the impression that a sync command just doesn't do the trick. It kicks in the cleaner but returns to early. But I din't try that again lately. But I'm actually currently using "btrfs fs sync" to do it because a normal "sync" command would affect all my filesystems and I'd like to keep it isolated. I'll post a link to my backup script for reference in another post in this thread. -- Replies to list only preferred. -- 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
