Re: Snapshot mysteries (and an oops)

[Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 12 December 2009, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
[...]
> > 
> > Yes the docs may be improved. The syntax is:
> > 
> > btrfsctl -D <snapshotname> <directory>
> > 	<snapshotname>		snapshot name
> > 	<directory>		where the snapshot is
> > 
> 
> What's the point of the last parameter?  Can't either btrfsctl or the 
> filesystem figure that out on its own?

Pay attention that you can have different sub-volumes with the same name in 
different directories. 
It would be better if the directory is extracted from the name..

> (Can a subvolume be "mounted" in two places at once?  If so, maybe the 
> second parameter makes a tiny bit of sense.)

Yes, a subvolume may be mounted in two places (mount -t btrfs -o 
subvol=<subvolumename> ...); but that doesn't matter: if you remove a 
subvolume.. you remove iteverywhere.

> 
> --Andy
 

Goffredo
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