Never mind on that last lsattr question.  I needed a "-d" option.  Silly me.  :)

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Timothy Normand Miller
<theo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another weird thing I've noticed.  I did this:
>
> chattr +C /mnt/btrfs/vms
>
> But both of these report nothing:
>
> lsattr /mnt/btrfs/vms
> lsattr /mnt/vms
>
> Shouldn't at least one show the C attribute?
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Timothy Normand Miller
> <theo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe this is a dumb question, but there are always corner cases.
>>
>> I have a subvolume where I want to disable CoW for VM disks.  Maybe
>> that's a dumb idea, but that's a recommendation I've seen here and
>> there.  Now, in the docs I've seen, +C applies to a directory.  Does
>> it apply to subvolumes?  And do I apply it to the subvolume within the
>> main volume, or do I apply it to the mount point where I've mounted
>> the subvolume separately?  Are there any cases where the flag applies
>> or not depending on how you access the files?
>>
>> The same subvolume for me is accessible via /mnt/btrfs/vms (via the
>> /mnt/btrfs mount point) and /mnt/vms (where the subvolume is mounted).
>> I applied +C to /mnt/btrfs/vms.  So what I'm trying to find out is if
>> it also applies when files are accessed via /mnt/vms.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Timothy Normand Miller, PhD
>> Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Binghamton University
>> http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~millerti/
>> Open Graphics Project
>
>
>
> --
> Timothy Normand Miller, PhD
> Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Binghamton University
> http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~millerti/
> Open Graphics Project



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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Binghamton University
http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~millerti/
Open Graphics Project
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