How to get the default subvolume?

How to get the default subvolume?

[Yi Yang]

Hi,

I know I can set the default subvolume for a btrfs fs using

sudo btrfs subvolume set-default 256 /btrfs/mnt

But after that, how can get the default subvolume name? In my opinion,
btrfs-progs should provide "btrfs subvolume get-default /btrfs/mnm" to get
the default subvolume id and name, I think it is very easy to do this in
btrfs-progs and btrfs kernel space.

Re: How to get the default subvolume?

[Hugo Mills]

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On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 05:58:02PM +0800, Yi Yang wrote:
> I know I can set the default subvolume for a btrfs fs using
> 
> sudo btrfs subvolume set-default 256 /btrfs/mnt
> 
> But after that, how can get the default subvolume name? In my opinion,
> btrfs-progs should provide "btrfs subvolume get-default /btrfs/mnm" to get
> the default subvolume id and name, I think it is very easy to do this in
> btrfs-progs and btrfs kernel space.

   I don't think the current btrfs-progs will do it. As you pointed
out though, it's pretty easy to write the code to get the information
(I implemented it for btrfs-gui without any additional kernel code,
for example). We just need someone to implement it. :)

   I'd do it myself, but there's about a dozen things higher up my
priority list right now.

   Hugo.

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Re: How to get the default subvolume?

[Andreas Philipp]

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On 08.07.2011 11:58, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 05:58:02PM +0800, Yi Yang wrote:
>> I know I can set the default subvolume for a btrfs fs using
>>
>> sudo btrfs subvolume set-default 256 /btrfs/mnt
>>
>> But after that, how can get the default subvolume name? In my opinion,
>> btrfs-progs should provide "btrfs subvolume get-default /btrfs/mnm" to
get
>> the default subvolume id and name, I think it is very easy to do this in
>> btrfs-progs and btrfs kernel space.
>
> I don't think the current btrfs-progs will do it. As you pointed
> out though, it's pretty easy to write the code to get the information
> (I implemented it for btrfs-gui without any additional kernel code,
> for example). We just need someone to implement it. :)
>
> I'd do it myself, but there's about a dozen things higher up my
> priority list right now.
>
Well, I'd be happy to try it. If it's fine, I will try to follow the
implementation from btrfs-gui.
 
Andreas
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RE: How to get the default subvolume?

[Yang, Yi Y]

That's great, can you share your source code with me? I'm very eager to get this now :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Hugo Mills [mailto:hugo@carfax.org.uk] 
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 5:58 PM
To: Yang, Yi Y
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to get the default subvolume?

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 05:58:02PM +0800, Yi Yang wrote:
> I know I can set the default subvolume for a btrfs fs using
> 
> sudo btrfs subvolume set-default 256 /btrfs/mnt
> 
> But after that, how can get the default subvolume name? In my opinion, 
> btrfs-progs should provide "btrfs subvolume get-default /btrfs/mnm" to 
> get the default subvolume id and name, I think it is very easy to do 
> this in btrfs-progs and btrfs kernel space.

   I don't think the current btrfs-progs will do it. As you pointed out though, it's pretty easy to write the code to get the information (I implemented it for btrfs-gui without any additional kernel code, for example). We just need someone to implement it. :)

   I'd do it myself, but there's about a dozen things higher up my priority list right now.

   Hugo.

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Re: How to get the default subvolume?

[Hugo Mills]

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On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 06:06:02PM +0800, Yang, Yi Y wrote:
> That's great, can you share your source code with me? I'm very eager to get this now :-)

   http://carfax.org.uk/btrfs-gui
   http://git.darksatanic.net/repo/btrfs-gui.git/

   You probably want the btrfsgui.hlp.subvol.sv_list() function.

   Hugo.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugo Mills [mailto:hugo@carfax.org.uk] 
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 5:58 PM
> To: Yang, Yi Y
> Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: How to get the default subvolume?
> 
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 05:58:02PM +0800, Yi Yang wrote:
> > I know I can set the default subvolume for a btrfs fs using
> > 
> > sudo btrfs subvolume set-default 256 /btrfs/mnt
> > 
> > But after that, how can get the default subvolume name? In my opinion, 
> > btrfs-progs should provide "btrfs subvolume get-default /btrfs/mnm" to 
> > get the default subvolume id and name, I think it is very easy to do 
> > this in btrfs-progs and btrfs kernel space.
> 
>    I don't think the current btrfs-progs will do it. As you pointed out though, it's pretty easy to write the code to get the information (I implemented it for btrfs-gui without any additional kernel code, for example). We just need someone to implement it. :)
> 
>    I'd do it myself, but there's about a dozen things higher up my priority list right now.
> 
>    Hugo.
> 

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RE: How to get the default subvolume?

[Yang, Yi Y]

>From your source, you defined some structures using python and use them to get and parse btrfs metadata, very advanced and complicated :-), do you know there is any library to provide similar APIs in order that I can use some advanced APIs and don't need to worry  about frequent changes of btrfs superblock and other metadata.

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From: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Hugo Mills
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 6:13 PM
To: Yang, Yi Y
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to get the default subvolume?

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 06:06:02PM +0800, Yang, Yi Y wrote:
> That's great, can you share your source code with me? I'm very eager 
> to get this now :-)

   http://carfax.org.uk/btrfs-gui
   http://git.darksatanic.net/repo/btrfs-gui.git/

   You probably want the btrfsgui.hlp.subvol.sv_list() function.

   Hugo.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugo Mills [mailto:hugo@carfax.org.uk]
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 5:58 PM
> To: Yang, Yi Y
> Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: How to get the default subvolume?
> 
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 05:58:02PM +0800, Yi Yang wrote:
> > I know I can set the default subvolume for a btrfs fs using
> > 
> > sudo btrfs subvolume set-default 256 /btrfs/mnt
> > 
> > But after that, how can get the default subvolume name? In my 
> > opinion, btrfs-progs should provide "btrfs subvolume get-default 
> > /btrfs/mnm" to get the default subvolume id and name, I think it is 
> > very easy to do this in btrfs-progs and btrfs kernel space.
> 
>    I don't think the current btrfs-progs will do it. As you pointed 
> out though, it's pretty easy to write the code to get the information 
> (I implemented it for btrfs-gui without any additional kernel code, 
> for example). We just need someone to implement it. :)
> 
>    I'd do it myself, but there's about a dozen things higher up my priority list right now.
> 
>    Hugo.
> 

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Re: How to get the default subvolume?

[Hugo Mills]

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On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 06:28:54PM +0800, Yang, Yi Y wrote:
> From your source, you defined some structures using python and use
> them to get and parse btrfs metadata, very advanced and complicated
> :-), do you know there is any library to provide similar APIs in
> order that I can use some advanced APIs and don't need to worry
> about frequent changes of btrfs superblock and other metadata.

   The fundamental btrfs data structures (which you'll find defined in
ctree.h in the btrfs-progs source, and which are mirrored in my python
code) won't change much, since they define the on-disk layout.
Changing those structures creates incompatible filesystems, which is a
Bad Thing, so it doesn't happen all that often.

   Hugo.

PS. On most development mailing lists, it's conventional to write your
replies below the text you're replying to, not above.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Hugo Mills
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 6:13 PM
> To: Yang, Yi Y
> Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: How to get the default subvolume?
> 
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 06:06:02PM +0800, Yang, Yi Y wrote:
> > That's great, can you share your source code with me? I'm very eager 
> > to get this now :-)
> 
>    http://carfax.org.uk/btrfs-gui
>    http://git.darksatanic.net/repo/btrfs-gui.git/
> 
>    You probably want the btrfsgui.hlp.subvol.sv_list() function.
> 
>    Hugo.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hugo Mills [mailto:hugo@carfax.org.uk]
> > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 5:58 PM
> > To: Yang, Yi Y
> > Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: How to get the default subvolume?
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 05:58:02PM +0800, Yi Yang wrote:
> > > I know I can set the default subvolume for a btrfs fs using
> > > 
> > > sudo btrfs subvolume set-default 256 /btrfs/mnt
> > > 
> > > But after that, how can get the default subvolume name? In my 
> > > opinion, btrfs-progs should provide "btrfs subvolume get-default 
> > > /btrfs/mnm" to get the default subvolume id and name, I think it is 
> > > very easy to do this in btrfs-progs and btrfs kernel space.
> > 
> >    I don't think the current btrfs-progs will do it. As you pointed 
> > out though, it's pretty easy to write the code to get the information 
> > (I implemented it for btrfs-gui without any additional kernel code, 
> > for example). We just need someone to implement it. :)
> > 
> >    I'd do it myself, but there's about a dozen things higher up my priority list right now.
> > 
> >    Hugo.
> > 
> 

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