From: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>
To: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <list@fajar.net>
Cc: cwillu <cwillu@cwillu.com>, Anand jain <Anand.Jain@oracle.com>,
linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Request for review] [RFC] Add label support for snapshots and subvols
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 22:32:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121101223253.GA28864@carfax.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG1y0sd-F6WrUFsvwAx+7LGD+V7a6XCoP9=XEkADPEAyEL1G1w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 05:28:01AM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:16 AM, cwillu <cwillu@cwillu.com> wrote:
> >> btrfs fi label -t /btrfs/snap1-sv1
> >> Prod-DB-sand-box-testing
> >
> > Why is this better than:
> >
> > # btrfs su snap /btrfs/Prod-DB /btrfs/Prod-DB-sand-box-testing
> > # mv /btrfs/Prod-DB-sand-box-testing /btrfs/Prod-DB-production-test
> > # ls /btrfs/
> > Prod-DB Prod-DB-production-test
>
>
> ... because it would mean possibilty to decouple subvol name from
> whatever-data-you-need (in this case, a label).
>
> My request, though, is to just implement properties, and USER
> properties, like what we have in zfs. This seems to be a cleaner,
> saner approach. For example, this is on Ubutu + zfsonlinux:
>
> # zfs create rpool/u
> # zfs set user:label="Some test filesystem" rpool/u
> # zfs get creation,user:label rpool/u
> NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
> rpool/u creation Fri Nov 2 5:24 2012 -
> rpool/u user:label Some test filesystem local
Don't we already have an equivalent to that with user xattrs?
Hugo.
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-01 10:46 [Request for review] [RFC] Add label support for snapshots and subvols Anand jain
2012-11-01 10:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] Btrfs-progs: move open_file_or_dir() to utils.c Anand jain
2012-11-01 10:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] Btrfs-progs: add feature to label subvol and snapshot Anand jain
2012-11-01 10:46 ` [PATCH] Btrfs: add label to snapshot and subvol Anand jain
2012-11-05 7:39 ` Jan Schmidt
2012-11-16 5:15 ` Anand Jain
2012-11-01 22:16 ` [Request for review] [RFC] Add label support for snapshots and subvols cwillu
2012-11-01 22:28 ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2012-11-01 22:32 ` Hugo Mills [this message]
2012-11-01 22:49 ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2012-11-05 7:24 ` Anand Jain
2012-11-05 23:22 ` David Sterba
2012-11-01 23:04 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2012-11-16 4:52 ` [Request for review v2] " Anand jain
2012-11-16 4:52 ` [PATCH 1/3] Btrfs-progs: move open_file_or_dir() to utils.c Anand jain
2012-11-16 4:52 ` [PATCH v2] Btrfs: add label to snapshot and subvol Anand jain
2012-11-16 6:33 ` Miao Xie
2012-11-27 18:26 ` Anand Jain
2012-11-16 4:52 ` [PATCH 2/3] Btrfs-progs: add feature to label subvol and snapshot Anand jain
2012-11-16 4:52 ` [PATCH 3/3] Btrfs-progs: cmd option to show or set the subvol label Anand jain
2012-11-27 18:29 ` [Request for review v3] [RFC] Add label support for snapshots and subvols Anand jain
2012-11-27 18:29 ` [PATCH v3] Btrfs: add label to snapshot and subvol Anand jain
2012-11-28 3:05 ` Miao Xie
2012-11-28 10:02 ` Anand Jain
2012-11-28 10:25 ` Miao Xie
2012-11-28 12:17 ` Anand Jain
2012-11-28 12:15 ` Anand jain
2012-11-27 18:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] Btrfs-progs: move open_file_or_dir() to utils.c Anand jain
2012-11-27 18:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] Btrfs-progs: add feature to label subvol and snapshot Anand jain
2012-11-27 18:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] Btrfs-progs: cmd option to show or set the subvol label Anand jain
2012-11-30 15:47 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add subvol and snapshot attribute label Anand jain
2012-11-30 15:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] Btrfs-progs: move open_file_or_dir() to utils.c Anand jain
2012-11-30 15:48 ` [PATCH 2/3] Btrfs-progs: add attribute label for subvol and snapshot Anand jain
2012-11-30 15:48 ` [PATCH 3/3] Btrfs-progs: cmd option to show or set the subvol label Anand jain
2013-02-25 5:31 ` [PATCH 0/2 v4] Btrfs-progs: Add support for " Anand Jain
2013-02-25 5:31 ` [PATCH 1/2 v4] Btrfs-progs: add feature to label subvol and snapshot Anand Jain
2013-02-25 5:31 ` [PATCH 2/2 v4] Btrfs-progs: cmd option to show or set the subvol label Anand Jain
2013-02-25 5:31 ` [PATCH v4] Btrfs: Add support for " Anand Jain
2013-02-25 5:31 ` [PATCH v4] Btrfs: ability to add label to snapshot and subvol Anand Jain
2013-02-25 20:45 ` Hugo Mills
2013-03-01 10:36 ` Anand Jain
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