Re: Moving top level to a subvolume

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On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Arne Jansen <sensille@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 13.06.2012 09:04, C Anthony Risinger wrote:

>>> ... because in a), data will *copied* the slow way

>> What I don't understand is why you think data will be copied.

> at one point i tried to create a new subvol and `mv` files there, and
> it took quite some time to complete
> (cross-link-device-what-have-you?), but maybe things changed ... will
> try it out.

IIRC it hasn't. Not in upstream anyway. Some distros (e.g. opensuse)
carry their own patch which allows cross-subvolume links (cp --reflink
...).

But it shouldn't matter anyway, since you can SNAPSHOT the old subvol
(even root subvol), instead of creating a new subvol. Which means
nothing needs to be copied.

You'd still have to do "rm" manually though.

-- 
Fajar
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