Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote (ao): > On 2015-07-09 08:41, Sander wrote: > >Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote (ao): > >>>What's wrong with "btrfs subvolume snapshot"? > >> > >>Well, personally I would say the fact that once something is tagged as > >>a snapshot, you can't change it to a regular subvolume without doing a > >>non-incremental send/receive. > > > >A snapshot is a subvolume. There is no such thing as "tagged as a > >snapshot". > > > > Sander > > > No, there is a bit in the subvolume metadata that says whether it's > considered a snapshot or not. Internally, they are handled identically, but > it does come into play when you consider things like btrfs subvolume show -s > (which only lists snapshots), which in turn means that certain tasks are > more difficult to script robustly. I stand corrected. Thanks for the info. Sander -- 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
