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From: Sidong Yang <realwakka@gmail.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sidong Yang <realwakka@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: docs: add seeding device section for btrfs-man5
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 17:17:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210214171738.23919-1-realwakka@gmail.com> (raw)

This patch adds a section about seeding device for btrfs-man5.
Description and examples are from btrfs-wiki page.

Signed-off-by: Sidong Yang <realwakka@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/btrfs-man5.asciidoc | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 74 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/btrfs-man5.asciidoc b/Documentation/btrfs-man5.asciidoc
index e5edbe53..db2b5f1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/btrfs-man5.asciidoc
+++ b/Documentation/btrfs-man5.asciidoc
@@ -995,6 +995,80 @@ that report space usage: 'filesystem df', 'device usage'. The command
 ---------------
 
 
+SEEDING DEVICE
+--------------
+
+The original filesystem and devices are included as a readonly starting point to
+the new FS. All modifications go onto different devices and the COW machinery
+makes sure the original is unchanged.
+
+--------------------
+# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/gentoo/btrfs-test-1 count=2 bs=1G
+# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/gentoo/btrfs-test-2 count=2 bs=1G
+--------------------
+
+--------------------
+# losetup /dev/loop0 /mnt/gentoo/btrfs-test-1
+# losetup /dev/loop1 /mnt/gentoo/btrfs-test-2
+--------------------
+
+--------------------
+# mkfs.btrfs /dev/loop0
+--------------------
+
+--------------------
+# mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/test/
+# echo a > /mnt/test/a
+# echo b > /mnt/test/b
+--------------------
+
+--------------------
+# umount /mnt/test
+--------------------
+
+Now we will use this filesystem as a seed device:
+--------------------
+# btrfstune -S 1 /dev/loop0
+--------------------
+For more details, see `btrfstune`(8).
+
+--------------------
+# mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/test
+mount: block device /dev/loop0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
+# btrfs device add /dev/loop1 /mnt/test
+# ls /mnt/test
+a  b
+# echo c > /mnt/test/c
+bash: c: Read-only file system
+--------------------
+
+--------------------
+# mount -o remount,rw /mnt/test
+OR
+# umount /mnt/test
+# mount /dev/loop1 /mnt/test
+--------------------
+
+--------------------
+# echo c > /mnt/test/c
+# echo d > /mnt/test/d
+# umount /mnt/test
+--------------------
+
+--------------------
+# mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/test
+mount: block device /dev/loop0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
+# ls /mnt/test
+a  b
+# umount /mnt/test
+# mount /dev/loop1 /mnt/test
+# ls /mnt/test
+a  b  c  d
+# cat /mnt/test/c
+c
+--------------------
+
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 `acl`(5),
-- 
2.25.1


             reply	other threads:[~2021-02-14 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-14 17:17 Sidong Yang [this message]
2021-03-01 20:57 ` [PATCH] btrfs-progs: docs: add seeding device section for btrfs-man5 David Sterba
2021-03-04  7:10   ` Sidong Yang

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