From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@libero.it>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can you please define "snapshot" and "subvolume"?
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 10:15:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101009081537.GA4418@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010072313.18647.kreijack@libero.it>
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:13:18PM +0200, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
> On Thursday, 07 October, 2010, David Nicol wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> > > BTW, it would be very useful to be able to turn existing directories
> > > into subvolumes.
> >
> > does a (link,unlink) move work across subvolumes?
>
> The link across subvolumes is not allowable. In the beginning it was
> possible, but that was source of bugs. See the thread "Hard link across
> subvolumes"
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg03286.html
But couldn't cp --reflink be made to work?
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-09 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-07 11:39 Can you please define "snapshot" and "subvolume"? Francis Galiegue
[not found] ` <AANLkTinGvkLSNq3xiOA5R777k54wbjfgDRKjXwJx0_fW@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-07 12:00 ` Benjamin Griese
2010-10-07 12:30 ` Jérôme Poulin
2010-10-07 13:18 ` Mike Hommey
2010-10-07 14:00 ` Benjamin Griese
2010-10-07 20:52 ` David Nicol
2010-10-07 21:13 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-10-07 21:14 ` Chester
2010-10-09 8:15 ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2010-10-09 13:55 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-10-07 18:08 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-10-07 20:48 ` David Nicol
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