From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
chris.mason@oracle.com, hch@lst.de, ssorce@redhat.com
Subject: Re: What to do about subvolumes?
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:50:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101201145003.GA28820@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101201142136.GD427@dhcp231-156.rdu.redhat.com>
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 09:21:36AM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> 1) Users need to be able to create their own subvolumes. The permission
> semantics will be absolutely the same as creating directories, so I don't think
> this is too tricky. We want this because you can only take snapshots of
> subvolumes, and so it is important that users be able to create their own
> discrete snapshottable targets.
>
> 2) Users need to be able to snapshot their subvolumes. This is basically the
> same as #1, but it bears repeating.
>
> 3) Subvolumes shouldn't need to be specifically mounted. This is also
> important, we don't want users to have to go around mounting their subvolumes up
> manually one-by-one. Today users just cd into subvolumes and it works, just
> like cd'ing into a directory.
It would be helpful to be able to create subvolumes off existing
directories, instead of creating a subvolume and having to copy all the
data around.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-01 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-01 14:21 What to do about subvolumes? Josef Bacik
2010-12-01 14:50 ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2010-12-01 14:51 ` C Anthony Risinger
2010-12-01 14:51 ` C Anthony Risinger
2010-12-01 16:01 ` Chris Mason
2010-12-01 16:01 ` Chris Mason
2010-12-01 16:03 ` C Anthony Risinger
2010-12-01 16:03 ` C Anthony Risinger
2010-12-01 16:13 ` Chris Mason
2010-12-01 16:13 ` Chris Mason
2010-12-01 16:31 ` Mike Hommey
2010-12-01 16:31 ` Mike Hommey
2010-12-09 19:53 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-12-01 16:00 ` Chris Mason
2010-12-01 16:38 ` Hugo Mills
2010-12-01 16:48 ` Gordan Bobic
2010-12-01 16:52 ` Mike Hommey
2010-12-01 16:52 ` C Anthony Risinger
2010-12-01 16:52 ` C Anthony Risinger
2010-12-01 17:38 ` Josef Bacik
2010-12-01 19:35 ` Hugo Mills
2010-12-01 20:24 ` Freddie Cash
2010-12-01 20:24 ` Freddie Cash
2010-12-01 21:28 ` Hugo Mills
2010-12-01 23:32 ` Freddie Cash
2010-12-01 23:32 ` Freddie Cash
2010-12-02 4:46 ` Mike Fedyk
2010-12-02 4:46 ` Mike Fedyk
2010-12-01 18:33 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-12-01 18:36 ` Josef Bacik
2010-12-01 18:48 ` C Anthony Risinger
2010-12-01 18:48 ` C Anthony Risinger
2010-12-01 18:52 ` C Anthony Risinger
2010-12-01 18:52 ` C Anthony Risinger
2010-12-01 19:08 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-12-01 19:44 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-01 19:54 ` Josef Bacik
2010-12-01 20:00 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-01 20:09 ` Josef Bacik
2010-12-01 20:16 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-02 1:52 ` Michael Vrable
2010-12-03 20:53 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-01 20:03 ` Jeff Layton
2010-12-01 20:46 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-12-01 21:06 ` Jeff Layton
2010-12-02 9:26 ` Arne Jansen
2010-12-02 9:49 ` Arne Jansen
2010-12-02 16:11 ` Chris Mason
2010-12-02 17:14 ` David Pottage
[not found] ` <AANLkTinBzpoCnci+1a=0pjXbAdQ7mzpdr2k8GOo7HUc8@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-03 13:47 ` Fwd: " Paweł Brodacki
2010-12-03 20:56 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-03 2:43 ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-31 2:40 ` Ian Kent
2010-12-03 4:25 ` Chris Ball
2010-12-03 14:00 ` Josef Bacik
2010-12-03 21:45 ` Josef Bacik
2010-12-03 22:16 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-03 22:27 ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-03 22:29 ` Chris Mason
2010-12-03 22:45 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-03 23:01 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-12-06 16:48 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-08 6:39 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-12-08 23:07 ` Neil Brown
2010-12-09 4:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-12-09 15:19 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-07 16:52 ` hch
2010-12-07 20:45 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-07 16:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-07 17:02 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-08 17:16 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-12-08 17:27 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-08 21:18 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-12-04 21:58 ` Mike Fedyk
2010-12-04 21:58 ` Mike Fedyk
2010-12-06 14:27 ` Josef Bacik
2010-12-06 14:27 ` Josef Bacik
2011-01-31 2:56 ` Ian Kent
2010-12-07 16:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
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