+1 from me On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 15:18, Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- To be or not to be -- Shakespeare | To do is to be -- Nietzsche | To be is to do -- Sartre | Do be do be do -- Sinatra -- 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
