Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs-progs: send operates on ro snapshots only

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On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 03:00:58PM +0200, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> While talking to another btrfs user on IRC today, it became clear that a
> major point of confusion in the btrfs send manual is that it's not
> telling the user soon enough that send/receive solely operates on
> subvolume snapshots instead of the original (read/write) subvolumes.
> 
> So, change the first few lines to explicitly mention snapshots instead.
> Technically, snapshots are also just subvolumes, but requiring this
> level of technical detailed knowledge doesn't help the user who is just
> trying out things.

Agreed.

> Signed-off-by: Hans van Kranenburg <hans.van.kranenburg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Applied, thanks.
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