On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 03:29:48PM +0000, Filipe Manana wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 6:49 PM, Liu Bo <bo.li....@oracle.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the following steps[1], if <parent> on receiver side has got
> > changed via 'btrfs property set', then after doing incremental
> > updates, receiver gets a different snapshot from what sender has sent.
> >
> > The reason behind it is that there is no change about file 'foo' in
> > the send stream, such that receiver simply creates a snapshot of
> > <parent> on its side with nothing to apply from the send stream.
> >
> > A possible way to avoid this is to check rtransid and ctranid of
> > <parent> on receiver side, but I'm not very sure whether the current
> > behavior is made deliberately, does anyone have an idea?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -liubo
> >
> > [1]:
> > $ btrfs sub create /mnt/send/sub
> > $ touch /mnt/send/sub/foo
> > $ btrfs sub snap -r /mnt/send/sub /mnt/send/parent
> >
> > # send parent out
> > $ btrfs send /mnt/send/parent | btrfs receive /mnt/recv/
> >
> > # change parent and file under it
> > $ btrfs property set -t subvol /mnt/recv/parent ro false
> > $ truncate -s 4096 /mnt/recv/parent/foo
> >
> > $ btrfs sub snap -r /mnt/send/sub /mnt/send/update
> > $ btrfs send -p /mnt/send/parent /mnt/send/update | btrfs receive /mnt/recv
> >
> > $ ls -l /mnt/send/update
> > total 0
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar  6 11:13 foo
> >
> > $ ls -l /mnt/recv/update
> > total 0
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Mar  6 11:14 foo
> 
> Interesting. I wasn't aware of that and I'm surprised too, I wouldn't
> expect that behaviour (and I must see the code to figure out why it
> behaves like that).

The code about comparing rtransid and ctransid does exist in
cmds-receive.c, but had been commented.

Thanks,

-liubo
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