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Message-ID: <20070613101739.GV28279@think.oraclecorp.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:17:39 -0400
From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs: a copy on write, snapshotting FS
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 04:08:30AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:14:39PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> > > Aside from folding snapshot history into the origin's namespace... It
> > > could be possible to have a mount.btrfs that allows subvolumes and/or
> > > snapshot volumes to be mounted as unique roots? I'd imagine a bind
> > > mount _could_ provide this too? Anyway, I'm just interested in
> > > understanding the vision for managing the potentially complex nature
> > > of a Btrfs namespace.
> >
> > One option is to put the real btrfs root into some directory in
> > (/sys/fs/btrfs/$device?) and then use tools in userland to mount -o bind
> > outside of that. I wanted to wait to get fancy until I had a better
> > idea of how people would use the feature.
>
> We already support mounting into subdirectories of a filesystem for
> nfs connection sharing. The patch below makes use of this to allow
> mounting any subdirectory of a btrfs filesystem by specifying it in
> the form of /dev/somedevice:directory and when no subdirectory
> is specified uses 'default'.
Neat, thanks Christoph, this will be much nicer longer term. I'll
integrate it after I finish off -enospc.
> To make this more useful btrfs directories
> should grow some way to be marked head of a subvolume,
They are already different in the btree, but maybe I'm not 100% sure
what you mean by marked as the head of a subvolume?
> and we'd need
> a more useful way to actually create subvolumes and snapshots without
> fugly ioctls.
One way I can think of that doesn't involve an ioctl is to have a
special subdir at the root of the subvolume:
cd
/mnt/default/.snaps
mkdir new_snapshot
rmdir old_snapshot
cd /mnt
mkdir new_subvol
rmdir old_subvol
-chris
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