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From: Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: generic name for volume and subvolume root?
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 12:48:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170909104845.GW12642@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48008a58-a82e-d9f7-327e-eeb905e18aa1@gmx.com>

On Sat 2017-09-09 (18:40), Qu Wenruo wrote:

> > Is there a generic name for both volume and subvolume root?
> 
> Nope, subvolume (including snapshot) is not distinguished by its 
> filename/path/directory name.
> 
> And you can only do snapshot on subvolume (snapshot is one kind of 
> subvolume) boundary.

So, I can name a btrfs root volume also btrfs subvolume?

I am talking about documentation, not coding!

I just want yo use the correct terms.


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REF:<48008a58-a82e-d9f7-327e-eeb905e18aa1@gmx.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-09 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-09  8:35 generic name for volume and subvolume root? Ulli Horlacher
2017-09-09 10:40 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-09-09 10:48   ` Ulli Horlacher [this message]
2017-09-09 10:58     ` Qu Wenruo
2017-09-09 11:06       ` Hugo Mills
2017-09-09 11:13         ` Hans van Kranenburg
2017-09-09 11:00 ` Hugo Mills
2017-09-10 14:21 ` Peter Grandi

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