2011-07-11 02:00:51 +0200, krzf83@xxxxxxxxx : > Documentation says that btrfs-image zeros data. Feature request is for > disabling this. btrfs-image could be used to copy filesystem to > another drive (for example with snapshots, when copying it file by > file would take much longer time or acctualy was not possible > (snapshots)). btrfs-image in turn could be used to actualy shrink loop > devices/sparse file containing btrfs - by copying filesystem to new > loop device/sparse file. > > Also it would be nice if copying filesystem could occour without > intermediate dump to a file... [...] I second that. See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/9675/focus=9820 for a way to transfer btrfs fs. (Add a layer of "copy-on-write" on the original devices (LVM snapshots, nbd/qemu-nbd cow...), "btrfs add" the new device(s) and then "btrfs del" of the cow'ed original devices. -- Stephane -- 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
