Re: Can you please define "snapshot" and "subvolume"?

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On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:30:31AM -0400, Jérôme Poulin wrote:
> Just to tell you one of my use case, I do compilations of OpenWRT on a
> Btrfs filesystem, when I snapshot, I only snapshot the subvolume where
> all the sources are instead of the whole root filesystem, and when I
> need a snapshot of the root for backup purposes, only the root without
> all the snapshot (which are used to compile for different models of
> embedded devices) is snapshotted, which probably reduces the overhead
> (I can't tell for sure) and makes deletion instantaneous, the cleaner
> just wipes behind the subvolume remove command.

BTW, it would be very useful to be able to turn existing directories
into subvolumes.

Mike
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