On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 09:21:36AM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote: > 1) Users need to be able to create their own subvolumes. The permission > semantics will be absolutely the same as creating directories, so I don't think > this is too tricky. We want this because you can only take snapshots of > subvolumes, and so it is important that users be able to create their own > discrete snapshottable targets. > > 2) Users need to be able to snapshot their subvolumes. This is basically the > same as #1, but it bears repeating. > > 3) Subvolumes shouldn't need to be specifically mounted. This is also > important, we don't want users to have to go around mounting their subvolumes up > manually one-by-one. Today users just cd into subvolumes and it works, just > like cd'ing into a directory. It would be helpful to be able to create subvolumes off existing directories, instead of creating a subvolume and having to copy all the data around. Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
