Re: Confining scrub to a subvolume

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On 12/30/2015 07:26 PM, Duncan wrote:
> David Sterba posted on Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:39:49 +0100 as excerpted:
> 
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 01:00:34AM +0100, Sree Harsha Totakura wrote:
>>> Is it possible to confine scrubbing to a subvolume instead of the whole
>>> file system?
>>
>> No. Srub reads the blocks from devices (without knowing which files own
>> them) and compares them to the stored checksums.
> 
> Of course if like me you prefer not to have all your data eggs in one 
> filesystem basket and have used partitions (or LVM) and multiple 
> independent btrfs, in which case you scrub the filesystem you want, and 
> don't worry about the others. =:^)

I considered it, but after reading somewhere (couldn't find the source)
that having a single btrfs could be beneficial, I decided not to.
Clearly, it doesn't seem to be true in this case.

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions.  I will be using
different btrfs file systems based.

Regards,
Sree Harsha Totakura

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