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Avoinding disk-full problems

Posted Jun 2, 2012 18:52 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Avoinding disk-full problems by faramir
Parent article: Atime and btrfs: a bad combination?

> As to snapshots being "cheap", that can refer to two different things: storage requirements OR execution time.

I think it refers to _both_.

Plus it's tough to pre-alocate when you have no idea how much space you are actually going to have to end up using.

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