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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

  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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