Re: btrfsctl returns bad exit status

[C Anthony Risinger <anthony@extof.me>]

Try using "btrfs" tool; btrfsctl is/will be deprecated I think...  and
it's better anyway.

C Anthony [mobile]

On Jul 23, 2010, at 3:04 PM, "K. Richard Pixley" <rich@noir.com> wrote:

> Using btrfsctl from ubuntu maverick, (built and running on
> ubuntu-10.04), I get:
>
> rich@eisenhower> btrfsctl -s snap1 /home || echo failed
> operation complete
> Btrfs Btrfs v0.19
> failed
> rich@eisenhower> ls -las snap1
> total 4
> 4 drwxr-xr-x 1 root    root    32 2010-07-20 18:25 .
> 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 rich    rich  1324 2010-07-21 12:47 ..
> 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 checker build   22 2010-07-20 18:21 checker
> 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 rich    rich  1322 2010-07-21 12:44 rich
> 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root    root    36 2010-07-21 10:47 za-cb
>
> This would seem to indicate a non-zero exit status despite the fact
> that the snapshotting operation appears to have succeeded.  This
> makes it impossible to programmatically check whether a snapshot was
> created successfully or not as I will need to explicitly discard the
> exit status from btrfsctl.
>
> I get the same results when built from git, except that it
> identifies itself as "v0.19-16-g075587c".
>
> I would expect that btrfsctl would return zero exit status when it
> was capable of doing what it was asked and non-zero exit status only
> when it could not.
>
> --rich
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