From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: C Anthony Risinger Subject: Re: What to do about subvolumes? Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 08:51:55 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20101201142136.GD427@dhcp231-156.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, chris.mason@oracle.com, hch@lst.de, ssorce@redhat.com To: Josef Bacik Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101201142136.GD427@dhcp231-156.rdu.redhat.com> Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: > > =3D=3D=3D How do we want subvolumes to work from a user perspective? = =3D=3D=3D > > 1) Users need to be able to create their own subvolumes. =A0The permi= ssion > semantics will be absolutely the same as creating directories, so I d= on't think > this is too tricky. =A0We want this because you can only take snapsho= ts of > subvolumes, and so it is important that users be able to create their= own > discrete snapshottable targets. > > 2) Users need to be able to snapshot their subvolumes. =A0This is bas= ically the > same as #1, but it bears repeating. could it be possible to convert a directory into a volume? or at least base a snapshot off it? C Anthony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html