Am Sonntag, 16. September 2018, 14:50:04 CEST schrieb Hans van Kranenburg:
> The last example, where you make a subvolume and move everything into
> it, will not do what you want. Since a subvolume is a separate new
> directoty/file hierarchy, mv will turn into a cp and rm operation
> (without warning you) probably destroying information about data shared
> between files.

I thought that wasn't true anymore.  The NEWS file to coreutils contains this 
(for version 8.24):

  mv will try a reflink before falling back to a standard copy, which is
  more efficient when moving files across BTRFS subvolume boundaries.

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Marc Joliet
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