Re: BTRFS messes up snapshot LV with origin

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2014-11-29 2:25 GMT+01:00 Robert White <rwhite@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> On 11/28/2014 09:05 AM, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
>>
>> For the disk autodetection, I still convinced that it is a "sane" default
>> to skip the lvm-snapshot
>
>
> No... please don't...
>
> Maybe offer an option to select between snapshots or no-snapshots but in much the same way there is no _functional_ difference between a subvolume and a snapshot in btrfs, there is no "degenerate" status to an LVM snapshot.
>
> It would be way more useful if the helper dumped a message via stderr or syslog that said something like "UUID=xxxxxxxx ambiguous, must select between /dev/AA and /dev/BB using device= to mount filesystem."
>


I agree with this. Sometimes people will exactly want to do that:
mount the snapshot devices and not the origins. Listing devices in the
device= mount option sounds perfectly sane.
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