-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/07/14 07:27, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote: > On 07/04/2014 11:06 PM, Bob Williams wrote: >> On 04/07/14 21:38, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote: > >> >> Thank you, Goffredo. As the current /home/bob is not a >> subvolume, but a regular linux directory/folder, will the "cp >> --reflink" still carry the same speed advantage? >> >> In other words, using your example above, will this work: >> >> # cp --reflink -R normal_directory-A/* subvolume-B/ # rm -rf >> normal_directory-A/ > > Yes. > > If you want to move (or copy) files between subvolume, cp > --reflink is faster. > > > I have to point out that the "--reflink" is only an internal > detail. The two file are logically separated: if you after the > copy change the source, the destination is unaffected. > Many thanks. Conversion of /home/bob to a subvolume completed uneventfully. :-) And very quickly, considering it is ~500GB. I have made a note of that --reflink option. Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.11.10-17-desktop Distro: openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.13.2 Uptime: 06:00am up 6 days 20:14, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.18, 0.25 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlO35NAACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU6YWgCgiriAUJF8Ee01ckev67fBTe6P /WIAnjs2DnzqPU+nUFhCiyN4K212n893 =gSrD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
