Re: finding root filesystem of a subvolume?

[Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>]

On Tue 2017-08-22 (11:03), Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:


> Or alternatively, repeatedly call `btrfs filesystem show` on the path, 
> removing one component from the end each time until you get a zero 
> return code.  The path you called it on that got a zero return code is 
> where the mount is (and thus what filesystem that subvolume is part of), 
> and the output just gave you a list of devices it's on.

"btrfs filesystem show" is relative slow (2.6 s), 
"btrfs subvolume show" is MUCH faster (0.02 s).


In perl I have now:

$root = $volume;
while (`btrfs subvolume show "$root" 2>/dev/null` !~ /toplevel subvolume/) {
  $root = dirname($root);
  last if $root eq '/';
}


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