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From: Anand Jain <Anand.Jain@oracle.com>
To: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <list@fajar.net>
Cc: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>, cwillu <cwillu@cwillu.com>,
	linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Request for review] [RFC] Add label support for snapshots and subvols
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:24:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <509769C0.2040508@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG1y0scEreHgQwFBCABRwbF1_mQaibgPwLBKUOLJD7kV2HL7JA@mail.gmail.com>




  Thanks for all the comments and inputs.

  feature    xattr     btrfs-kernel-way
  [1]         No        Yes
  [2]         No        Yes
  [3]         Yes       No


  [1]. Ability to read subvol label without mount
  [2]. Full-ability to log and track the property
       when it is modified
  [3]. risk-free patch ?

  Any comments on why not the btrfs-kernel-way and a review
  of the patch ?

Thanks -Anand


On 11/02/2012 06:49 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 05:28:01AM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:16 AM, cwillu <cwillu@cwillu.com> wrote:
>>>>>   btrfs fi label -t /btrfs/snap1-sv1
>>>>> Prod-DB-sand-box-testing
>>>>
>>>> Why is this better than:
>>>>
>>>> # btrfs su snap /btrfs/Prod-DB /btrfs/Prod-DB-sand-box-testing
>>>> # mv /btrfs/Prod-DB-sand-box-testing /btrfs/Prod-DB-production-test
>>>> # ls /btrfs/
>>>> Prod-DB  Prod-DB-production-test
>>>
>>>
>>> ... because it would mean possibilty to decouple subvol name from
>>> whatever-data-you-need (in this case, a label).
>>>
>>> My request, though, is to just implement properties, and USER
>>> properties, like what we have in zfs. This seems to be a cleaner,
>>> saner approach. For example, this is on Ubutu + zfsonlinux:
>>>
>>> # zfs create rpool/u
>>> # zfs set user:label="Some test filesystem" rpool/u
>>> # zfs get creation,user:label rpool/u
>>> NAME     PROPERTY    VALUE                  SOURCE
>>> rpool/u  creation    Fri Nov  2  5:24 2012  -
>>> rpool/u  user:label  Some test filesystem   local
>>
>>     Don't we already have an equivalent to that with user xattrs?
>>
>>     Hugo.
>
>
> Anand did say one way to implement the label is by using attr, so +1
> from me for that approach.
>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-05  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-01 10:46 [Request for review] [RFC] Add label support for snapshots and subvols Anand jain
2012-11-01 10:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] Btrfs-progs: move open_file_or_dir() to utils.c Anand jain
2012-11-01 10:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] Btrfs-progs: add feature to label subvol and snapshot Anand jain
2012-11-01 10:46 ` [PATCH] Btrfs: add label to snapshot and subvol Anand jain
2012-11-05  7:39   ` Jan Schmidt
2012-11-16  5:15     ` Anand Jain
2012-11-01 22:16 ` [Request for review] [RFC] Add label support for snapshots and subvols cwillu
2012-11-01 22:28   ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2012-11-01 22:32     ` Hugo Mills
2012-11-01 22:49       ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2012-11-05  7:24         ` Anand Jain [this message]
2012-11-05 23:22           ` David Sterba
2012-11-01 23:04     ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2012-11-16  4:52 ` [Request for review v2] " Anand jain
2012-11-16  4:52   ` [PATCH 1/3] Btrfs-progs: move open_file_or_dir() to utils.c Anand jain
2012-11-16  4:52   ` [PATCH v2] Btrfs: add label to snapshot and subvol Anand jain
2012-11-16  6:33     ` Miao Xie
2012-11-27 18:26       ` Anand Jain
2012-11-16  4:52   ` [PATCH 2/3] Btrfs-progs: add feature to label subvol and snapshot Anand jain
2012-11-16  4:52   ` [PATCH 3/3] Btrfs-progs: cmd option to show or set the subvol label Anand jain
2012-11-27 18:29 ` [Request for review v3] [RFC] Add label support for snapshots and subvols Anand jain
2012-11-27 18:29   ` [PATCH v3] Btrfs: add label to snapshot and subvol Anand jain
2012-11-28  3:05     ` Miao Xie
2012-11-28 10:02       ` Anand Jain
2012-11-28 10:25         ` Miao Xie
2012-11-28 12:17           ` Anand Jain
2012-11-28 12:15     ` Anand jain
2012-11-27 18:29   ` [PATCH 1/3] Btrfs-progs: move open_file_or_dir() to utils.c Anand jain
2012-11-27 18:29   ` [PATCH 2/3] Btrfs-progs: add feature to label subvol and snapshot Anand jain
2012-11-27 18:29   ` [PATCH 3/3] Btrfs-progs: cmd option to show or set the subvol label Anand jain
2012-11-30 15:47 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add subvol and snapshot attribute label Anand jain
2012-11-30 15:48   ` [PATCH 1/3] Btrfs-progs: move open_file_or_dir() to utils.c Anand jain
2012-11-30 15:48   ` [PATCH 2/3] Btrfs-progs: add attribute label for subvol and snapshot Anand jain
2012-11-30 15:48   ` [PATCH 3/3] Btrfs-progs: cmd option to show or set the subvol label Anand jain
2013-02-25  5:31 ` [PATCH 0/2 v4] Btrfs-progs: Add support for " Anand Jain
2013-02-25  5:31   ` [PATCH 1/2 v4] Btrfs-progs: add feature to label subvol and snapshot Anand Jain
2013-02-25  5:31   ` [PATCH 2/2 v4] Btrfs-progs: cmd option to show or set the subvol label Anand Jain
2013-02-25  5:31 ` [PATCH v4] Btrfs: Add support for " Anand Jain
2013-02-25  5:31   ` [PATCH v4] Btrfs: ability to add label to snapshot and subvol Anand Jain
2013-02-25 20:45     ` Hugo Mills
2013-03-01 10:36       ` Anand Jain

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