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 -- 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
