Re: [PATCH v4] Btrfs: ability to add label to snapshot and subvol

2013-03-01 Thread Anand Jain
As long as we integrate, broadcast and use single keyword for a purpose I am fine with using xattr. Patch using xattr was posted as well. Just a note, potential applications using snapshot label are: - Yum, btrfs-progs, snapper, btrfs-gui, Gnome-Nautilus-snapshot-plugin,

Re: [PATCH v4] Btrfs: ability to add label to snapshot and subvol

2013-02-25 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 01:31:45PM +0800, Anand Jain wrote: Generally snapshots are machine generated, so at any point in time if a sysadmin looks at a list of snapshots there should be some info about the snapshots to indicate purpose of it being created. I still can't see what benefits

[PATCH v4] Btrfs: ability to add label to snapshot and subvol

2013-02-24 Thread Anand Jain
Generally snapshots are machine generated, so at any point in time if a sysadmin looks at a list of snapshots there should be some info about the snapshots to indicate purpose of it being created. With this patch and along with the corresponding btrfs-progs patch a 32byte info can be added to the