Re: subvolume/snapshot usage question

2009-08-22 Thread Goffredo Baroncelli
Hello tsuraan, bcp is what you need. bcp is part of btrfs-prog-unstable See http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg02292.html BR Goffredo On Saturday 22 August 2009, tsuraan wrote: Suppose I have a directory under my home on a btrfs filesystem where I store virtual

subvolume/snapshot usage question

2009-08-21 Thread tsuraan
Suppose I have a directory under my home on a btrfs filesystem where I store virtual machine images. I have one base virtual machine, and from it I make copies that I actually run. To make a copy of a VM today, I do cp -r, which seems pretty wasteful since the VMs are almost entirely identical.