Cannot set-default back to ID 0

Cannot set-default back to ID 0

[Bernhard Schmidt]

Hi,

a recent Ubuntu upgrade killed my system. Luckily I had done a btrfs
snapshot before, so I set the particular subvolume as default using

# btrfs subvolume set-default 261 /mnt

from a rescue system and was back up in no time. I then mounted the
original volume with subvolid=0 and repaired it. So far so good.
However, I fail to set the default volume back to the original.

# btrfs subvolume set-default 0 /

apparently does nothing, I don't get an error but I'm still on the
snapshot after reboot. Currently I'm working around this adding
rootflag=subvolid=0 on the kernel command line, but that is kind of
inconvenient.

Is this expected?

Ubuntu natty amd64, Kernel 2.6.38-rc5, btrfs-tools 0.19+20100601 

Thanks
Bernhard

Re: Cannot set-default back to ID 0

[arand]

Bernhard Schmidt <berni <at> birkenwald.de> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> a recent Ubuntu upgrade killed my system. Luckily I had done a btrfs
> snapshot before, so I set the particular subvolume as default using
> 
> # btrfs subvolume set-default 261 /mnt
> 
> from a rescue system and was back up in no time. I then mounted the
> original volume with subvolid=0 and repaired it. So far so good.
> However, I fail to set the default volume back to the original.
> 
> # btrfs subvolume set-default 0 /
> 
> apparently does nothing, I don't get an error but I'm still on the
> snapshot after reboot. Currently I'm working around this adding
> rootflag=subvolid=0 on the kernel command line, but that is kind of
> inconvenient.
> 
> Is this expected?
> 
> Ubuntu natty amd64, Kernel 2.6.38-rc5, btrfs-tools 0.19+20100601 
> 
> Thanks
> Bernhard
> 
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I was asking a similar question in IRC, and the answer I got was:
"The "0" alias for the top-level subvol is implemented in the kernel, not the
userspace tools."

I was however able to do this using:
# btrfs subvolume set-default 5 /
Using 5 for "the _real_ subvolid"

Or alternatively:
# mount -o defaults,subvolid=0 /mnt
# btrfsctl -m /mnt/

It's a bit odd, agreed, and the people I spoke to seemed to agree as well =)

- arand