K Richard Pixley <rpix...@graphitesystems.com> writes: > But as a user level facility, I want to be able to snapshot before > making a change to a tree full of source code and (re)building it all > over again. I may want to keep my new build, but I may want to flush > it and return to known good state.
You may want to check out cp --reflink=always (different from cp --link), which creates copy-on-write copy of the data. It isn't quite as fast as snapshots to create, but it's still plenty fast and without the downsides of subvolumes. -- _____________________________________________________________________ / __// /__ ____ __ http://www.modeemi.fi/~flux/\ \ / /_ / // // /\ \/ / \ / /_/ /_/ \___/ /_/\_\@modeemi.fi \/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html