Both man btrfs-send(8) and usage message don't describe btrfs-send needs read-only snapshot as its argument.
Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_sat...@jp.fujitsu.com> --- Documentation/btrfs-send.asciidoc | 1 + cmds-send.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/btrfs-send.asciidoc b/Documentation/btrfs-send.asciidoc index 1dba8a3..e05342f 100644 --- a/Documentation/btrfs-send.asciidoc +++ b/Documentation/btrfs-send.asciidoc @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- Sends the subvolume(s) specified by <subvol> to stdout. +<subvol> should be read-only here. By default, this will send the whole subvolume. To do an incremental send, use '-p <parent>'. diff --git a/cmds-send.c b/cmds-send.c index 478ace1..3e34d75 100644 --- a/cmds-send.c +++ b/cmds-send.c @@ -711,6 +711,7 @@ const char * const cmd_send_usage[] = { "btrfs send [-ve] [-p <parent>] [-c <clone-src>] [-f <outfile>] <subvol> [<subvol>...]", "Send the subvolume(s) to stdout.", "Sends the subvolume(s) specified by <subvol> to stdout.", + "<subvol> should be read-only here.", "By default, this will send the whole subvolume. To do an incremental", "send, use '-p <parent>'. If you want to allow btrfs to clone from", "any additional local snapshots, use '-c <clone-src>' (multiple times", -- 2.5.0 -- 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