On 2017年09月09日 16:35, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
As I am writing some documentation abount creating snapshots:
Is there a generic name for both volume and subvolume root?
Example:
root@fex:~# btrfs subvol show /mnt
ERROR: not a subvolume: /mnt
root@fex:~# btrfs subvol show /mnt/test
/mnt/test is toplevel subvolume
root@fex:~# btrfs subvol show /mnt/test/data
/mnt/test/data
Name: data
UUID: b32a5949-dfd6-ef45-8616-34ae4cdf6fb8
(...)
root@fex:~# btrfs subvol show /mnt/test/data/sw
ERROR: not a subvolume: /mnt/test/data/sw
I can create snapshots of /mnt/test and /mnt/test/data, but not of /mnt
and /mnt/test/data/sw
Is there a simple name for directories I can snapshot?
Nope, subvolume (including snapshot) is not distinguished by its
filename/path/directory name.
And you can only do snapshot on subvolume (snapshot is one kind of
subvolume) boundary.
For user to determine where is the subvolume boundary, one should first
determine there is the btrfs mounted and then use "btrfs subvol show" to
determine the boundaries.
Or, in a btrfs test the directory inode number. Subvolume/snapshot in
btrfs will always have the same inode number 256, and regular
file/directories/special files will not use that magic number.
Thanks,
Qu
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