[systemd-devel] /var/lib/machines be a mounted subvolume rather than an actual subvolume?

[Chris Murphy]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 16.07.15 12:40, Chris Murphy (lists at colorremedies.com) wrote:
>

>> Hence the question, rephrased, does systemd expect /var/lib/machines
>> to be an actual subvolume rather than a mountpoint backed by a mounted
>> subvolume?
>
> No. it can be anything. systemd will create it as subvol if it is
> missing, and you will get more features if it is a subvolume (like the
> quota/disk usage stuff menionted above) but it degrades gracefully if
> it is just a normal dir.

It will still be possible to snapshot it, and set quotas, just not
delete it because it would be a mounted subvolume rather than a nested
one.


-- 
Chris Murphy