On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 08:25:47PM +0100, Christian Völker wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> sorry for the simple question and I assume every developer here laughs
> about this question.
> 
> Anyway:
> 
> I have read loads of documents but did not find an answer for sure. Even
> though I assume I am right.
> 
> On a btrfs filesystem created; is it possible to have subvolumes with
> data duplication and another subvolume without (resp. with just metadata
> duplication)?

   No.

   It may happen at some point, but it's not possible right now.

   Hugo.

> I have some large filesystems currently with ext4 and I am thinking of
> changing to btrfs. Some of the data is more important than others. So I
> want to have data duplication on the important files (sorted in a mount
> point) and without for the other subvolume.
> 
> So I want to have the advantage of redundancy of important files
> combined with the flexibility of the volume manager and shared disk space.
> 
> Possible?
> 
> 
> GReetings
> 
> Christian
> 

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