>> And, finally, nobody has mentioned on the possibility of merging >> multiple snapshots into a single snapshot. Would this be possible, to >> create a snapshot that contains the most recent version of each file >> present across all of the snapshots (including files which may be >> present in only one of the snapshots)? > > There is no btrfs functionality for that. But I'm sure you could do something > with standard Unix utilities and copying files around. You could probably use UnionFS or one of the alternatives to get a merged view of a group of snapshots. You could then copy that merged view and delete the original snapshots. I'm not sure if there's anything special you have to do metadata-wise to turn that merged view into something btrfs would still recognize as a snapshot though. -- 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
