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From: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@libero.it>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can you please define "snapshot" and "subvolume"?
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 23:13:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010072313.18647.kreijack@libero.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinG8EN8x0=GxXq2x4W1uy6cZS078QQ5zDPFeDW2@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday, 07 October, 2010, David Nicol wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> > BTW, it would be very useful to be able to turn existing directories
> > into subvolumes.
> 
> does a (link,unlink) move work across subvolumes?

The link across subvolumes is not allowable.  In the beginning it was 
possible, but that was source of bugs. See the thread "Hard link across 
subvolumes"

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg03286.html


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-07 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-07 11:39 Can you please define "snapshot" and "subvolume"? Francis Galiegue
     [not found] ` <AANLkTinGvkLSNq3xiOA5R777k54wbjfgDRKjXwJx0_fW@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-07 12:00   ` Benjamin Griese
2010-10-07 12:30 ` Jérôme Poulin
2010-10-07 13:18   ` Mike Hommey
2010-10-07 14:00     ` Benjamin Griese
2010-10-07 20:52     ` David Nicol
2010-10-07 21:13       ` Goffredo Baroncelli [this message]
2010-10-07 21:14         ` Chester
2010-10-09  8:15         ` Mike Hommey
2010-10-09 13:55           ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-10-07 18:08 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-10-07 20:48 ` David Nicol

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