Re: APFS improvements (e.g. firm links, volume w/ subvols replication) as ideas for Btrfs?

2019-08-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 3:58 AM David Sterba wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 10:03:51PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > There are a couple of things going on. One is something between VFS > > and Btrfs does this goofy assumption that bind mounts are subvolumes, > > which is definitely not true.

Re: APFS improvements (e.g. firm links, volume w/ subvols replication) as ideas for Btrfs?

2019-06-13 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2019-06-12 16:02, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 2:07 AM Neal Gompa wrote: I mean, yes... FHS is definitely unhelpful, but Apple conforms to FHS pretty well, even though it's not obvious that it does. Apple just has the benefit of being able to shuffle things around without peop

Re: APFS improvements (e.g. firm links, volume w/ subvols replication) as ideas for Btrfs?

2019-06-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 2:07 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > I mean, yes... FHS is definitely unhelpful, but Apple conforms to FHS > pretty well, even though it's not obvious that it does. Apple just has > the benefit of being able to shuffle things around without people > noticing, whereas no Linux distri

Re: APFS improvements (e.g. firm links, volume w/ subvols replication) as ideas for Btrfs?

2019-06-12 Thread David Sterba
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 10:03:51PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:31 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > Hey, > > > > So Apple held its WWDC event last week, and among other things, they > > talked about improvements they've made to filesystems in macOS[1]. > > > > Among other th

Re: APFS improvements (e.g. firm links, volume w/ subvols replication) as ideas for Btrfs?

2019-06-12 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 12:04 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:31 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > Hey, > > > > So Apple held its WWDC event last week, and among other things, they > > talked about improvements they've made to filesystems in macOS[1]. > > > > Among other things,

Re: APFS improvements (e.g. firm links, volume w/ subvols replication) as ideas for Btrfs?

2019-06-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:31 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > Hey, > > So Apple held its WWDC event last week, and among other things, they > talked about improvements they've made to filesystems in macOS[1]. > > Among other things, one of the things introduced was a concept of > "firm links", which is s

APFS improvements (e.g. firm links, volume w/ subvols replication) as ideas for Btrfs?

2019-06-11 Thread Neal Gompa
Hey, So Apple held its WWDC event last week, and among other things, they talked about improvements they've made to filesystems in macOS[1]. Among other things, one of the things introduced was a concept of "firm links", which is something like NTFS' directory junctions, except they can cross (su