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From: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@libero.it>
To: Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A question about subvolumes
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 08:27:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53B79AE4.3030404@libero.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53B7176F.1020409@barrowhillfarm.org.uk>

On 07/04/2014 11:06 PM, Bob Williams wrote:
> On 04/07/14 21:38, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:

> 
> Thank you, Goffredo. As the current /home/bob is not a subvolume, but
> a regular linux directory/folder, will the "cp --reflink" still carry
> the same speed advantage?
> 
> In other words, using your example above, will this work:
> 
> 	# cp --reflink -R normal_directory-A/* subvolume-B/
> 	# rm -rf normal_directory-A/

Yes.

If you want to move (or copy) files between subvolume, cp --reflink is faster.


I have to point out that the "--reflink" is only an internal detail. The two file are logically separated: if you after the copy change the source, the destination is unaffected.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-05  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-04 14:38 A question about subvolumes Bob Williams
2014-07-04 20:38 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2014-07-04 21:06   ` Bob Williams
2014-07-05  6:27     ` Goffredo Baroncelli [this message]
2014-07-05 11:43       ` Bob Williams
2014-07-05 16:06         ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-07-05 23:49           ` Chris Samuel

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