On 10/19/2012 10:37 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:

> From my perspective as a user I would be grateful if the following changes in
> syntax for listing subvolumes could be considered:
> 
> In addition to 
> 
>     btrfs subvolume list [-apurts] [-g [+|-]value] [-c [+|-]value] [--sort=gen,ogen,rootid,path] <path>
>     btrfs su list [-apurts] [-g [+|-]value] [-c [+|-]value] [--sort=gen,ogen,rootid,path] <path>
>         List subvolumes (and snapshots)
>     (and Anand's patch to allow <path>/<subpath>)
> 
> I believe the following shortcuts may be useful
> 
>     btrfs subvolumes [-apurts] [-g [+|-]value] [-c [+|-]value] [--sort=gen,ogen,rootid,path] <path>[</subpath>]
>     btrfs sl [-apurts] [-g [+|-]value] [-c [+|-]value] [--sort=gen,ogen,rootid,path] <path>[</subpath>]
> 
> Although from a technical perspective 'subvolume list' may be logical, listing
> subvolumes (plural) seems like a different sort of operation to those relating
> to a subvolume (singular) for create/alter/show/delete/snapshot operations.

+1 to this proposal (FWIW) - thanks for making the user interface more
intuitive :)

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