On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:26:42AM -0800, Matthew Lai wrote: > I have just started playing with btrfs, and noticed that "btrfs send" only > works for root (ERROR: failed to initialize subvol search. Operation not > permitted), even on subvolumes created by the user. > > Am I doing something wrong? Or is this the intended behaviour? Intended but can be revisited to allow non-root owner's to send their snapshots. > Returns: > ERROR: can't perform the search- Operation not permitted > ERROR: failed to initialize subvol search. Operation not permitted The SEARCH_TREE ioctl is also root-only and a unconstrained interface to the filesystem internals, so a new ioctl would have to be introduced to do what send needs. -- 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
