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From:   "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 00/11] expose btrfs subvols in mount table correctly
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 08:26:12AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> I think this is behavior people generally expect, but I wonder what
> the consequences of this would be with huge numbers of subvolumes. If
> there are hundreds or thousands of them (which is quite possible on
> SUSE systems, for example, with its auto-snapshotting regime), this
> would be a mess, wouldn't it?

I'm surprised that btrfs is special here.  Doesn't anyone have thousands
of lvm snapshots?  Or is it that they do but they're not normally
mounted?

--b.