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| author | Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com> | 2018-01-11 15:44:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com> | 2018-01-11 15:44:55 +0000 |
| commit | d78d642bffff6ea49d62c19f26052ed6d3dcc467 (patch) | |
| tree | db0f470018ee6f4b93fb8fd601401fa157e5dbe3 /Documentation/btrfs-send.asciidoc | |
| parent | b309a4dfbe8130b9fef087df59dd18a487a9c18e (diff) | |
New upstream release.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/btrfs-send.asciidoc | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/btrfs-send.asciidoc b/Documentation/btrfs-send.asciidoc index ef345f68..cd7ada76 100644 --- a/Documentation/btrfs-send.asciidoc +++ b/Documentation/btrfs-send.asciidoc @@ -29,12 +29,13 @@ are available on both the sending and receiving side can be used to reduce the amount of information that has to be sent to reconstruct the sent snapshot on a different filesystem. -It is allowed to omit the '-p <parent>' option when '-c <clone-src>' options -are given, in which case *btrfs send* will determine a suitable parent among the -clone sources itself. +The '-p <parent>' option can be omitted when '-c <clone-src>' options are +given, in which case *btrfs send* will determine a suitable parent from among +the clone sources. You must not specify clone sources unless you guarantee that these snapshots -are exactly in the same state on both sides, the sender and the receiver. +are exactly in the same state on both sides--both for the sender and the +receiver. `Options` @@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ send in 'NO_FILE_DATA' mode + The output stream does not contain any file data and thus cannot be used to transfer changes. This mode is faster and -useful to show the differences in metadata. +is useful to show the differences in metadata. -v|--verbose:: enable verbose output, print generated commands in a readable form, (each |