[PATCH] proper VFS interaction for subvolume creation

2008-10-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Creating a subvolume is in many ways like a normal VFS -mkdir, and we really need to play with the VFS topology locking rules. So instead of just creating the snapshot on disk and then later getting rid of confliting aliases do it correctly from the start. This will become especially important

Problem with building btrfs into the kernel instead of module

2008-10-07 Thread Arun Bhanu
Hi I have compiled btrfs into the kernel instead of building as module. Then I create a btrfs filesystem on a partition and try to mount it and I get the following error. # mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda1 fs created label (null) on /dev/sda1 nodesize 4096 leafsize 4096 sectorsize 4096 size 4.88GB