On Thursday 18 February 2010, Chris Mason wrote:
> I do like the subcommand method, more details below.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 03:35:26PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > I think he need some command hierarchy here.
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Goffredo Baroncelli
> > <kreij...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > OPTIONS
> > >       snapshot|-s <source> [<dest>/]<name>
> > >              Create a writeble snapshot of the subvolume  <source>  with 
 the
> > >              name  <name>  in the <dest> directory. If <source> is not a 
sub‐
> > >              volume, btrfs returns an error.
> > 
> > This should be "btrfs subvolume snapshot <source> [<dest>/]<name>".
> > It only works on subvolumes.
> 
> If we can type subvol instead of subvolume I like it.  Basically the
> perl/python arg parsing system where any short form of the command that
> uniquely matches it is allowed.

So for you

$ btrfs s s <source> <dest>

is OK ?

('btrfs s s' means btrfs subvolume snapshot)



> We keep the long forms but allow the user to pick a shorter form if it
> isn't ambiguous.

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