Re: cannot move ro-snapshot directly but indirectly works

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On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 22:06 Christoph Anton Mitterer
<calestyo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hey.
>
> Not sure whether this is intended or not, but it feels at least
> somewhat strange:
>
> Consider I have a readonly snapshot (the only subvol here):
> /btrfs/snapshots/ro-snapshot
> now I want to move it to the dir:
> /btrfs/snapshots/foo/
> i.e.
> mv /btrfs/snapshots/ro-snapshot
> /btrfs/snapshots/foo/
> but the mv complains about read-only filesystem.
>

Not a developer, but I believe this is intended behavior.
Changing the direct parent directory of a subvolume is not a read only
operation: it involves modifying the '..' directory entry.
Renaming the subvolume, or moving the parent directory, modify the
overall fs-hierachy, but do not modify the subvol.

The same is true for normal directories:
mkdir /tmp/dir1
chmod -w /tmp/dir1
mv /tmp/dir1 /tmp/dir2 ## allowed
mkdir /tmp/dir3
mv /tmp/dir2 /tmp/dir3/dir2 ## Permission denied

~ Noah
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