From: Harshavardhana <harsha@gluster.com>
To: Jay Sullivan <notfed@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rmdir SubVolume?
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 08:57:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE97E63.8070409@gluster.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin_5GBuC9IzSzoY6hw4brLApJd2FeYfNj6Mo5Jc@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/11/2010 08:51 AM, Jay Sullivan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just experimenting with btrfs (am currently using btrfs-tools
> v0.19). I'm curious about deleting subvolume (and snapshot)
> directories. What exactly is the technical reason why we need a
> special command "btrfsctl -D" to delete these? What's the obstacle
> preventing "rmdir" from being used on these?
>
>
rmdir returns ENOTEMPTY as of now, there was a patch which i sent some
time back to return EPERM to make it more intuitive. I am not sure will
it be included.
Since there is another idea of actually implementing the btrfsctl -D
part into "btrfs_rmdir"
itself. Never got much time to look into it.
Regards
--
Harshavardhana
Gluster Inc - http://www.gluster.com
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2010-05-11 15:51 rmdir SubVolume? Jay Sullivan
2010-05-11 15:57 ` Harshavardhana [this message]
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