On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 01:11:42PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 02:45:49PM -0600, Terrance Harris wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm a btrfs novice, but i've been using it for a few years now on > > openSUSE Tumblweed. > > Howdy. > > First, please use the linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list > > > Is there a way to convert snaBpshots into mountable files using btrfs send? > > I am not sure I'm parsing your question. > btrfs send/receive copy read only snapshots between 2 btrfs volumes > > If you mean using a non differential btrfs send to a file, and then using > that file to act as if it were a filesystem you can read data from, I don't > believe this is easily possible currently (it's possible, just no tool > exists to do that). You're supposed to send it to btrfs receive, have it > saved on a filesystem, and then use that. It's not really possible with any degree of sanity. There's no indexing in the send stream, so read acesses would have to scan the whole file every time. If you want to read the contents of a send stream in an order other than the (arbitrary) one it's sent in, you need to replay it on a filesystem with receive. Hugo. -- Hugo Mills | You shouldn't anthropomorphise computers. They hugo@... carfax.org.uk | really don't like that. http://carfax.org.uk/ | PGP: E2AB1DE4 |
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