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@ml1.co.uk>
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
>
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