Re: [PATCH 0/2 V2] btrfs: a new tool to manage a btrfs filesystem

[Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 18 February 2010, Chris Mason wrote:
> I do like the subcommand method, more details below.
>=20
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 03:35:26PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > I think he need some command hierarchy here.
> >=20
> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Goffredo Baroncelli
> > <kreijack@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > OPTIONS
> > >       snapshot|-s <source> [<dest>/]<name>
> > >              Create a writeble snapshot of the subvolume  <source=
>  with=20
 the
> > >              name  <name>  in the <dest> directory. If <source> i=
s not a=20
sub=E2=80=90
> > >              volume, btrfs returns an error.
> >=20
> > This should be "btrfs subvolume snapshot <source> [<dest>/]<name>".
> > It only works on subvolumes.
>=20
> If we can type subvol instead of subvolume I like it.  Basically the
> perl/python arg parsing system where any short form of the command th=
at
> uniquely matches it is allowed.

So for you

$ btrfs s s <source> <dest>

is OK ?

('btrfs s s' means btrfs subvolume snapshot)



> We keep the long forms but allow the user to pick a shorter form if i=
t
> isn't ambiguous.

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