On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 05:28:01AM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:16 AM, cwillu <cwi...@cwillu.com> wrote: > >> btrfs fi label -t /btrfs/snap1-sv1 > >> Prod-DB-sand-box-testing > > > > Why is this better than: > > > > # btrfs su snap /btrfs/Prod-DB /btrfs/Prod-DB-sand-box-testing > > # mv /btrfs/Prod-DB-sand-box-testing /btrfs/Prod-DB-production-test > > # ls /btrfs/ > > Prod-DB Prod-DB-production-test > > > ... because it would mean possibilty to decouple subvol name from > whatever-data-you-need (in this case, a label). > > My request, though, is to just implement properties, and USER > properties, like what we have in zfs. This seems to be a cleaner, > saner approach. For example, this is on Ubutu + zfsonlinux: > > # zfs create rpool/u > # zfs set user:label="Some test filesystem" rpool/u > # zfs get creation,user:label rpool/u > NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE > rpool/u creation Fri Nov 2 5:24 2012 - > rpool/u user:label Some test filesystem local
Don't we already have an equivalent to that with user xattrs? Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- I spent most of my money on drink, women and fast cars. The --- rest I wasted. -- James Hunt
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