On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 04:26:16PM +0300, Amir G. wrote: > with ext4, snapshots reads may cause extra seeks, but main fs will > stay optimized for reads. > with thinp and multisnap, there is no optimization for read from one > specific target, but I admit that can change in the future when auto defrag > heuristics are applies to multisnap. I'm going to keep things symmetrical. A lot of use cases involve pointing at an arbitrary snapshot and saying "that's now my master". This is connected to why I support arbitrary depth of recursive snapshots too. - Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html