Btrfs devel - Oct 2014 - Re: 5 _thousand_ snapshots? even 160? (was: device balance times)

> But 5000 snapshots?
> 
> Why?  Are you *TRYING* to test btrfs until it breaks, or TRYING to
> demonstrate a balance taking an entire year?
Remember a given btrfs filesystem is not necessarily a backup 
destination for data from one source.

It can be, say, 30 or 60 daily snapshots, plus several monthly, for each 
data source * number of data sources.

So while it probably will make a difference (5000 snapshots from one 
source, vs 5000 snapshots made from many sources) for balance times, I 
wouldn't call a large number of snapshots that unusual.

-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://www.sslrack.com

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