Hi,
I am trying the 'seed device' functionality, trying to get a read-only
block-device to act as a seed for multiple other filesystems.
The following sequence works for setting up the first filesystem.
#-------------
#First initialize 'seed device'
mkfs.btrfs /dev/vdb
mount /dev/vdb /mnt
btrfs -S subvol /mnt
echo hello > /mnt/subvol/xxx
umount /mnt
#Make block device a "seed device" (read-only)
btrfstune -S 1 /dev/vdb
#Mount the seed device... it will be mounted read-only.
mount /dev/vdb /mnt
#Add the writeable block device
btrfs-vol -a /dev/vdc /mnt
#Now remount the filesystem read-write.
mount -oremount,rw /mnt
#Now all changes to /mnt should go to /dev/vdc.
#--------------
After this, however, it's not possible to mount /dev/vdb again in order to set
up a second filesystem as seed. I want to do:
mount /dev/vdb /othermnt
btrfs-vol -a /dev/vdd /othermnt
mount -oremount,rw /othermnt
So my questions (comments):
i) Is the seed-device _really_ read-only... no metadata updates or anything?
(i.e. I can have my seed device on read-only media)
ii) Should it be possible to have a device as a 'seed' for multiple other
filesystems.
iii) When the seeded filesystem is created, the size of the filesystem is the
aggregate of all devices, whereas it should be the aggregate size of only the
'writable' devices.
/Jonas
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