From: Matthew Lai <m@matthewlai.ca>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: btrfs send requires root
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:41:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52EAC6F8.9040005@matthewlai.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140130183007.GD1364@twin.jikos.cz>
Ah I see. Thanks for clarifying!
Matthew
On 30/01/2014 10:30 AM, David Sterba wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:26:42AM -0800, Matthew Lai wrote:
>> I have just started playing with btrfs, and noticed that "btrfs send" only
>> works for root (ERROR: failed to initialize subvol search. Operation not
>> permitted), even on subvolumes created by the user.
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong? Or is this the intended behaviour?
> Intended but can be revisited to allow non-root owner's to send their
> snapshots.
>
>> Returns:
>> ERROR: can't perform the search- Operation not permitted
>> ERROR: failed to initialize subvol search. Operation not permitted
> The SEARCH_TREE ioctl is also root-only and a unconstrained interface to
> the filesystem internals, so a new ioctl would have to be introduced to
> do what send needs.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-30 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-29 19:26 btrfs send requires root Matthew Lai
2014-01-30 18:30 ` David Sterba
2014-01-30 21:41 ` Matthew Lai [this message]
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