From: "Jérôme Poulin" <jeromepoulin@gmail.com>
To: "Larry D'Anna" <larry@elder-gods.org>
Cc: Ken Drummond <btrfs@kendrummond.com>,
linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] btrfs: allow cross-subvolume BTRFS_IOC_CLONE
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 16:01:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <-5611378764978042575@unknownmsgid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110402165629.GA24734@cthulhu>
I am very happy to see this patch. It was one of the first thing I
tried after making a subvolume, cp --reflink, and it failed. I'll have
to try this out.
J=E9r=F4me Poulin
On 2011-04-02, at 12:56, Larry D'Anna <larry@elder-gods.org> wrote:
> * Ken Drummond (btrfs@kendrummond.com) [110402 11:51]:
>> I don't really understand the details here, but doesn't the creation=
of
>> a snapshot already lead to data extents being shared between
>> sub-volumes? From a simple user perspective this sounds like a very
>> useful capability.
>
> I was surprised and frustrated to find it missing. I had just copied=
a large
> quantity of data into btrfs, realized i need to make a subvolume to t=
ry out
> snapshotting, and then found out i had to copy all the data *again* t=
o get it
> into a subvolume. There are tons of scenarios where users will want =
and expect
> to be able to do this.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-02 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-31 4:00 [PATCH 0/2] btrfs: allow cross-subvolume BTRFS_IOC_CLONE Larry D'Anna
2011-03-31 4:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] btrfs: remove unused argument 'root' from btrfs_release_path Larry D'Anna
2011-03-31 4:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] btrfs: allow cross-subvolume BTRFS_IOC_CLONE Larry D'Anna
2011-03-31 6:36 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-31 6:44 ` Arne Jansen
2011-03-31 12:02 ` Chris Mason
2011-04-01 13:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-01 13:40 ` Chris Mason
2011-04-02 1:59 ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2011-12-22 12:24 ` Chris Samuel
2012-01-06 12:04 ` Konstantinos Skarlatos
2012-01-06 17:57 ` David Sterba
2012-01-09 6:58 ` Marios Titas
2012-01-09 13:31 ` Jérôme Poulin
2012-01-19 16:52 ` Jérôme Poulin
2011-04-02 15:51 ` Ken Drummond
2011-04-02 16:56 ` Larry D'Anna
2011-04-02 20:01 ` Jérôme Poulin [this message]
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2011-03-31 11:12 Tomasz Chmielewski
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