On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:30:10PM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > 2011-05-27 10:45:23 +0100, Hugo Mills: > [...] > > > How could a "subvolume 285" become a "top level"? > > > > > How does one get a subvolume with a top-level other than "5"? > > > > This just means that subvolume 287 was created (somewhere) inside > > subvolume 285. > > > > Due to the way that the FS trees and subvolumes work, there's no > > global namespace structure in btrfs; that is, there's no single data > > structure that represents the entirety of the file/directory hierarchy > > in the filesystem. Instead, it's broken up into these sub-namespaces > > called subvolumes, and we only record parent/child relationships for > > each subvolume separately. The "full path" you get from "btrfs subv > > list" is reconstructed from that information in userspace(*). > [...] > > Thanks, I can understand that. What I don't get is how one > creates a subvol with a top-level other than 5. I might be > missing the obvious, though. > > If I do: > > btrfs sub create A > btrfs sub create A/B > btrfs sub snap A A/B/C > > A, A/B, A/B/C have their top-level being 5. How would I get a > new snapshot to be a child of A/B for instance? Hm. OK, that's not doing what I thought it was, then. I'll have to look at the code to work out what that top-level output actually is, then. (Won't be for a few hours, until I get home from work). > In my case, 285, was not appearing in the btrfs sub list output, > 287 was a child of 285 with path "data" while all I did was > create a snapshot of 284 (path > u6:10022/vm+xfs@u8/xvda1/g8/v3/data in vol 5) in > u6:10022/vm+xfs@u8/xvda1/g8/v3/snapshots/2011-03-30 > > So I did manage to get a volume with a parent other than 5, but > I did not ask for it. > -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes, and --- six months later you have to start all over again.
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