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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
To: george@chinilu.com
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Virtual Device Support
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 17:15:10 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130519171510.54897415@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <518CFE3A.3080900@chinilu.com>

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On Fri, 10 May 2013 07:03:38 -0700
George Mitchell <george@chinilu.com> wrote:

> One the things that is frustrating me the most at this point from a user 
> perspective regarding btrfs is the current lack of virtual devices to 
> describe volumes and subvolumes.

From a user perspective btrfs subvolumes have a lot in common with just
regular directories aka folders, and nothing in common with (block)devices.
"Describing them with virtual devices" does not seem to make a whole lot of
sense.

-- 
With respect,
Roman

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-19 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-10 14:03 Virtual Device Support George Mitchell
2013-05-19 11:04 ` Martin
2013-05-19 14:49   ` George Mitchell
2013-05-19 17:18     ` Martin
     [not found]     ` <CAHGunUke143r3pj0Piv3AtJrJO1x8Bm+qS5Z+sY1G1EobhMG_w@mail.gmail.com>
2013-05-21 14:26       ` George Mitchell
2013-05-19 11:15 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2013-05-19 18:18   ` Chris Murphy
2013-05-19 18:22     ` Chris Murphy
2013-05-21  1:08     ` Duncan
2013-05-21  2:17       ` George Mitchell
2013-05-21  3:59         ` Duncan
2013-05-21  5:21           ` George Mitchell
2013-05-21 12:19           ` Virtual Device Support ("N-way mirror code") Martin
2013-05-23 16:08             ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-05-24  1:41               ` George Mitchell
2013-05-25 11:53                 ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-05-24  6:13               ` Duncan
2013-05-25 11:56                 ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-05-21  3:37       ` Virtual Device Support Chris Murphy
2013-05-21 12:06         ` Martin
2013-05-22  2:23           ` Chris Murphy

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