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From: Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rsync -ax and subvolumes
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 23:21:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191010212133.GA3648@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMthOuMV7MgB4b87RsijYr9e0UsjMUDNk+QRXeauFdb3cZcTjw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu 2019-10-10 (20:47), Kai Krakow wrote:

> > I run into the problem that "rsync -ax" sees btrfs subvolumes as "other
> > filesystems" and ignores them.
> 
> I worked around it by mounting the btrfs-pool at a special directory:
> 
> mount -o subvolid=0 /dev/disk/by-label/rootfs /mnt/btrfs-pool

This is only possible by root, but not by regular users.
Yes, there are true multi-user systems still out there :-)


> Actually, you could also just bind-mount into /mnt/btrfs, bind-mounts
> won't inherit other mounts but will still see pure subvolumes.

Again, only possible by root.

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REF:<CAMthOuMV7MgB4b87RsijYr9e0UsjMUDNk+QRXeauFdb3cZcTjw@mail.gmail.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-10 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-10 17:20 rsync -ax and subvolumes Ulli Horlacher
2019-10-10 18:47 ` Kai Krakow
2019-10-10 21:21   ` Ulli Horlacher [this message]
2019-10-11 11:32     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-10-11  6:15   ` Ulli Horlacher
2019-10-11 18:17     ` Andrei Borzenkov
2019-10-16 19:07     ` Kai Krakow

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