similar to: cross-subvolume cp --reflink

Glück Auf! I use now kernel 3.2. The filesystem was originally created under 2.6.39 on 1 whole hdd, mounted with "noatime,nodiratime,inode_cache". I use it for backups: rsync the whole system to a subvolume, snapshot it and then delete some tempfiles in the snapshot, which are 90% of the full-backup, all once a day. In figures: on this 1 TB hdd is the full-backup with around 600 GiB and

Hi all, Just a quick question but can''t find an obvious answer. Can I create/convert a existing (btrfs) directory into a subvolume? It would be very helpful when transferring ''partitions'' into btrfs. I found a similar question way back in google, but that site is down now generally. Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

It seems that the BTRFS_IOC_CLONE ioctl fails when trying to do a cross-subvolume clone of a file. Chris Mason suggested in the past ([1]) that this should be possible. Am I missing something? [1] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-btrfs/2010/6/10/6884911 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to

Hey list, I wonder if it is possible to deduplicate read-only snapshots. Background: I''m using an bash/rsync script[1] to backup my whole system on a nightly basis to an attached USB3 drive into a scratch area, then take a snapshot of this area. I''d like to have these snapshots immutable, so they should be read-only. Since rsync won''t discover moved files but

Hello, This is the second attempt to bring in cross subvolume reflinks into btrfs. The first attempt was NAKed due to missing vfs mount checks and a clear description of what btrfs subvolumes are and probably also why cross subvolume reflinks are ok in the case of btrfs. This version of the patch comes from David and is in SUSE kernels since a long time, so it is tested and working. The patch

This testscript creates reflinks to files on different subvolumes, overwrites the original files and reflinks, and moves reflinked files between subvolumes. Originally submitted as testcase 302, changes are made based on comments from Eric: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2013-03/msg00231.html Two new common/rc functions used in this script (_require_cp_reflink and _verify_reflink) have been

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com> To: "Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: virt-devel@redhat.com, "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 9:20:51 AM Subject: [virt-devel] btrfs NOCOW for VM disk images Hi, In upstream QEMU we''re discussing patches that set the NOCOW flag

Hello, I''d like to know if there has been any discussion about adding a new feature to write (add) data at an offset, but without overwriting existing data, or re-writing the existing data. Essentially, in-place addition/removal of data to a file at a place other than the end of the file. Some possible use-cases of such a feature would be: (a) Databases (currently hack around this by

It''s been nearly a year since the patches needed to implement a reflinked copy between subvolumes have been posted (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/9865 ) and I still get "Invalid cross-device link" error with Linux 3.2.4 while I try to do a cp --reflink between subvolumes. This is a *very* useful feature to have (think offline file-level

Here are patches to do offline deduplication for Btrfs. It works well for the cases it''s expected to, I''m looking for feedback on the ioctl interface and such, I''m well aware there are missing features for the userspace app (like being able to set a different blocksize). If this interface is acceptable I will flesh out the userspace app a little more, but I believe the

Hi All, the following patches implement the recursively snapshotting and deleting of a subvolume. To snapshot recursively you must pass the -R switch: # btrfs subvolume create sub1 Create subvolume ''./sub1'' # btrfs subvolume create sub1/sub2 Create subvolume ''sub1/sub2'' # btrfs subvolume snapshot -R sub1 sub1-snap Create a snapshot of

Hi, Say I download a large file from the net to /mnt/a.iso. I then download the same file again to /mnt/b.iso. These files now have the same content, but are stored twice since the copies weren''t made with the bcp utility. The same occurs if a directory tree with duplicate files (created with bcp) is put through a non-aware program - for example tarred and then untarred again. This

Hello, I have a 5.5TB Btrfs filesystem on top of a md-raid 5 device. Now if i run some file operations like find, i get these messages. kernel is 2.6.38.5-1 on arch linux May 5 14:15:12 mail kernel: [13559.089713] parent transid verify failed on 3062073683968 wanted 5181 found 5188 May 5 14:15:12 mail kernel: [13559.089834] parent transid verify failed on 3062073683968 wanted 5181 found 5188

Hi, how can I do the following in a shell script: - check whether my file system supports cp --reflink? - check whether two files share the same data on disk, i.e. one has been created by cp --reflink of the other? Thank you! Thomas Koch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info

This testscript creates reflinks to files on different subvolumes, overwrites the original files and reflinks, and moves reflinked files between subvolumes. Originally submitted as testcase 302, changes are made based on comments from Eric: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2013-03/msg00231.html Two new common/rc functions used in this script (_require_cp_reflink and _verify_reflink) have been

I am testing a Btrfs root file system with Debian (kernel 2.6.32) under KVM. jason@vrtl:~$ touch testfile jason@vrtl:~$ cp --reflink testfile /tmp cp: failed to clone `/tmp/testfile'': Invalid argument This is with GNU Coreutils 8.0 taken from debian Sid. Is this a Coreutils issue, a Btrfs problem or something in my local configuration? All the other issues that I have encountered so

What happens if you set an individual file inside a subvolume as nocow (chattr +C) and then take a snapshot of that subvolume and modify the file in both? Will btrfs now ignore the nocow attribute completely or will it do "as few copies as possible"? (I''d love to know if it''s possible to visualize the fragmentation of a single file.) -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Originally from https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove/blob/master/btrfs-extent-same.c Signed-off-by: Gabriel de Perthuis <g2p.code+btrfs@gmail.com> --- .gitignore | 1 + Makefile | 2 +- btrfs-extent-same.c | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 btrfs-extent-same.c diff

Hello all: I have two machines with btrfs, that give me the "blocked for more than 120 seconds" message. After that I cannot write anything to disk, i am unable to unmount the btrfs filesystem and i can only reboot with sysrq-trigger. It always happens when i write many files with rsync over network. When i used 3.2rc6 it happened randomly on both machines after 50-500gb of writes.

Hi all, I have two multi-disk btrfs filesystems on a Arch linux 3.4.0 system. After a power failure, both filesystems refuse to mount [ 10.402284] Btrfs loaded [ 10.402714] device fsid 1e7c18a4-02d6-44b1-8eaf-c01378009cd3 devid 4 transid 65282 /dev/sdc [ 10.403108] btrfs: force zlib compression [ 10.403130] btrfs: enabling inode map caching [ 10.403152] btrfs: disk space caching is