On 12/30/2015 07:26 PM, Duncan wrote: > David Sterba posted on Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:39:49 +0100 as excerpted: > >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 01:00:34AM +0100, Sree Harsha Totakura wrote: >>> Is it possible to confine scrubbing to a subvolume instead of the whole >>> file system? >> >> No. Srub reads the blocks from devices (without knowing which files own >> them) and compares them to the stored checksums. > > Of course if like me you prefer not to have all your data eggs in one > filesystem basket and have used partitions (or LVM) and multiple > independent btrfs, in which case you scrub the filesystem you want, and > don't worry about the others. =:^)
I considered it, but after reading somewhere (couldn't find the source) that having a single btrfs could be beneficial, I decided not to. Clearly, it doesn't seem to be true in this case. Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I will be using different btrfs file systems based. Regards, Sree Harsha Totakura -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
