On 27/01/14 18:44, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2014, at 6:53 AM, KC <impactoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 3. If I make a snapshot of / and there are some separate partitions mounted under /mnt/ or /home/, will snapshot skip them? > > A snapshot of a subvolume only snapshots that subvolume, not other subvolumes contained in it or other partitions/file systems. Thanks. That's a critical detail to know. A few follow-on questions... Are taking snapshots: "atomic"? Do they hold up or lock out other disk activity? Is there an overhead to keeping many snapshots other than the storage any changed files take? Can we now consider making and deleting snapshots a "debugged stable feature"? Thanks, Martin -- 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
