Btrfs clone WIP patch
От | Jonathan Rogers |
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Тема | Btrfs clone WIP patch |
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Msg-id | 511B5D11.4040507@socialserve.com обсуждение исходный текст |
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Re: Btrfs clone WIP patch
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Список | pgsql-hackers |
This patch against PostgreSQL 9.1.8 takes advantage of efficient file cloning on Linux Btrfs file systems to make CREATE DATABASE operations extremely fast regardless of the size of the database used as a template. On my system, I can create a database from a multi-gibibyte template in a second or less. This is very useful for automated testing as well in a development environment where reverting to a baseline database is frequently required. As an added bonus, newly created databases require very little additional disk storage until they diverge from the template. The efficient cloning is accomplished by a Btrfs-specific ioctl() call. On non-Linux systems or if the ioctl() call fails, file contents are copied in the conventional way so no configuration is needed. This has been tested on a Linux system on both Btrfs and XFS file systems as well as an OSX system. The clone_file() function was originally copied from GNU coreutils which is under GPL v3. The function is currently only about ten lines long and contains little essential information beyond the magic values needed for the ioctl() call so I'm not sure if license is a problem. -- Jonathan Ross Rogers
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