On 05/11/2010 08:51 AM, Jay Sullivan wrote:> Hi,
>
> I''m just experimenting with btrfs (am currently using btrfs-tools
> v0.19). I''m curious about deleting subvolume (and snapshot)
> directories. What exactly is the technical reason why we need a
> special command "btrfsctl -D" to delete these? What''s
the obstacle
> preventing "rmdir" from being used on these?
>
>
rmdir returns ENOTEMPTY as of now, there was a patch which i sent some
time back to return EPERM to make it more intuitive. I am not sure will
it be included.
Since there is another idea of actually implementing the btrfsctl -D
part into "btrfs_rmdir"
itself. Never got much time to look into it.
Regards
--
Harshavardhana
Gluster Inc - http://www.gluster.com
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