From: Karl Kiniger <karl.kiniger@med.ge.com>
To: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
Cc: Btrfs BTRFS <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why cannot I move a read-only snapshot around?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:13:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131024231349.GA15363@kipc2.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AD5E9D64-6AED-48E2-8635-4B599F58F3A8@colorremedies.com>
On Thu 131024, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
> On Oct 24, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Karl Kiniger <karl.kiniger@med.ge.com> wrote:
> In what way would a r/o snapshot be modified because of moving its
> > "mount point" ? No one is ever doing something inside.
>
> For the same reason I can't move or rename a read only directory even though I'm not doing something inside.
I see now: the .. entry would change if the directory were being moved.
Still hoping there is a better way on btrfs than sending and receiving the snaps
just to a different folder.
Karl
>
> Chris Murphy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-24 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-24 15:29 Why cannot I move a read-only snapshot around? Karl Kiniger
2013-10-24 15:37 ` Karl Kiniger
2013-10-24 17:10 ` Chris Murphy
2013-10-24 21:57 ` Karl Kiniger
2013-10-24 22:28 ` Chris Murphy
2013-10-24 22:46 ` Karl Kiniger
2013-10-24 22:51 ` Chris Murphy
2013-10-24 23:13 ` Karl Kiniger [this message]
2013-10-25 0:57 ` Chris Murphy
2013-10-25 8:00 ` Karl Kiniger
2013-10-24 18:05 ` Duncan
2013-10-24 22:09 ` Karl Kiniger
2013-10-26 5:45 ` Christian Robert
2013-10-28 11:56 ` Karl Kiniger
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