From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Matthew Lai <m@matthewlai.ca>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: btrfs send requires root
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 19:30:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140130183007.GD1364@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52E955F2.60608@matthewlai.ca>
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:26:42AM -0800, Matthew Lai wrote:
> I have just started playing with btrfs, and noticed that "btrfs send" only
> works for root (ERROR: failed to initialize subvol search. Operation not
> permitted), even on subvolumes created by the user.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Or is this the intended behaviour?
Intended but can be revisited to allow non-root owner's to send their
snapshots.
> Returns:
> ERROR: can't perform the search- Operation not permitted
> ERROR: failed to initialize subvol search. Operation not permitted
The SEARCH_TREE ioctl is also root-only and a unconstrained interface to
the filesystem internals, so a new ioctl would have to be introduced to
do what send needs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-30 18:30 UTC|newest]
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2014-01-29 19:26 btrfs send requires root Matthew Lai
2014-01-30 18:30 ` David Sterba [this message]
2014-01-30 21:41 ` Matthew Lai
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