On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:39:22PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Apr 20, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Marc MERLIN <marc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Can you help me design this right? > > > > Long story short, I'm wondering if I can use btrfs send to copy sub > > subvolumes (by snapshotting a parent subvolume, and hopefully getting > > all the children underneath). My reading so far, says no. > > That's my understanding thus far also. Seems like first a recursive read-only snapshot creation is a pre-requisite, since a read-only snapshot is needed first in order to send it. > > I think the seed device method is a better way to do this, though I'm not sure what state its in. Thank you both for the confirmation. This indeed makes it too much of a pain for me, so I think I will go back to making hardlinks like I did with ext4 That way I won't need subvolumes of subvolumes and will be able to do snapshots and replication more easily. Thanks, Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 1024R/763BE901 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html