I'm using btrfs and snapper. So, I have many periodic btrfs snapshots, which are marked read-only (can of course be changed by btrfs to r/w and changed back.)
Let's say during my initial install I set a vimrc. And, let's say now I want to change the vimrc, so that if I go back to any of the snapshots my vimrc is the new one. Yeah, this totally re-writes history, and goes against the idea of having historical backups. But let's say that I change active snapshots often for testing and don't want to keep having to re-change certain configuration files like this. And I'm OK with blowing away my backups of the file. Right now, there should be only one copy of the vimrc file contents that are being used/pointed to, since it's never been modified since the very first snapshot. Is there a way I can modify the vimrc file, so that "all of them" are updated? Can I bypass copy on write during the edit, doing so just for the one file, so any system files in he background still use COW? I see I can't use chattr's NOCOW because the file isn't new or empty. Is there another way? Or, do I have to edit the live file, turn all the snapshots to r/w, perform a cp -ax --reflink=always to all the snapshot files, and turn all the snapshots to r/o? There's a lot of snapshots to do this to. (Granted a script would make this less painful.) -- 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
