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From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Can moving data to a subvolume not take as long as a fully copy?
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:32:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130114173250.GA23026@merlins.org> (raw)

I made a mistake and copied data in the root of a new btrfs filesystem.
I created a subvolume, and used mv to put everything in there.
Something like:
cd /mnt
btrfs subvolume create dir
mv * dir

Except it's been running for over a day now (ok, it's 5TB of data)

Looks like mv is really copying all the data as if it were an entirely
different filesystem.

Is there not a way to short circuit this and only update the metadata?

Thanks,
Marc
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             reply	other threads:[~2013-01-14 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-14 17:32 Marc MERLIN [this message]
2013-01-14 17:41 ` Can moving data to a subvolume not take as long as a fully copy? Hugo Mills
2013-01-14 18:00   ` Marc MERLIN
2013-01-14 18:13     ` Hugo Mills
2013-01-15  6:48 ` David Brown
2013-01-15 14:49   ` Marc MERLIN
2013-01-15 17:45     ` Mitch Harder

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