How to test if two btrfs snapshots are identical or not?

Question

As far as I know, in order to determine if a snapshot is identical with another one or not, we should check if Received UUID of destination is equal to UUID of source snapshot or not.

But this time, this procedure can not be applied:

root@aea3:/mnt/zencefil/snapshots/rootfs# btrfs send rootfs.20170705T1334/ | pv | btrfs receive /mnt/aea3/manual-snapshots/                                              
At subvol rootfs.20170705T1334/                                                                                                                                          
At subvol rootfs.20170705T1334                                                                                                                                          
37.8GiB 0:37:27 [17.2MiB/s] [                                                                            
root@aea3:/mnt/zencefil/snapshots/rootfs# btrfs sub show rootfs.20170705T1334/
/mnt/zencefil/snapshots/rootfs/rootfs.20170705T1334
        Name:                   rootfs.20170705T1334
        UUID:                   e66ace1b-3efc-5d40-b3ca-af000110e89d
        Parent UUID:            85bc19f1-9d61-da43-a4be-40c717aee652
        Received UUID:          c6f65496-f21d-c049-b2e2-44007b269dc6
        Creation time:          2017-07-10 12:47:16 +0300
        Subvolume ID:           2561
        Generation:             4331
        Gen at creation:        4327
        Parent ID:              257
        Top level ID:           257
        Flags:                  readonly
        Snapshot(s):
                                snapshots/rootfs/rootfs.20170710T1242
root@aea3:/mnt/zencefil/snapshots/rootfs# btrfs sub show /mnt/aea3/manual-snapshots/rootfs.20170705T1334/
/mnt/aea3/manual-snapshots/rootfs.20170705T1334
        Name:                   rootfs.20170705T1334
        UUID:                   53bc9463-2fe6-9a41-b17d-a0a8dc5e6086
        Parent UUID:            -
        Received UUID:          c6f65496-f21d-c049-b2e2-44007b269dc6
        Creation time:          2017-07-12 10:36:50 +0300
        Subvolume ID:           1832
        Generation:             64698
        Gen at creation:        64627
        Parent ID:              1831
        Top level ID:           1831
        Flags:                  readonly
        Snapshot(s):
root@aea3:/mnt/zencefil/snapshots/rootfs# btrfs --version
btrfs-progs v4.11

However, when I create and send a test snapshot and send it on the same drives on the same machine, it works as expected:

root@aea3:/mnt/zencefil/test# btrfs send mytest1/ | pv | btrfs receive /mnt/aea3/test/
At subvol mytest1/
At subvol mytest1
 540 B 0:00:00 [73.1KiB/s] [                                                                                                                                        ]
root@aea3:/mnt/zencefil/test# btrfs sub show mytest1/
/mnt/zencefil/test/mytest1
        Name:                   mytest1
        UUID:                   3a932406-8a81-5047-9a23-9333564752c2
        Parent UUID:            -
        Received UUID:          -
        Creation time:          2017-07-12 11:41:22 +0300
        Subvolume ID:           2567
        Generation:             4369
        Gen at creation:        4367
        Parent ID:              5
        Top level ID:           5
        Flags:                  readonly
        Snapshot(s):
root@aea3:/mnt/zencefil/test# btrfs sub show /mnt/aea3/test/mytest1/
/mnt/aea3/test/mytest1
        Name:                   mytest1
        UUID:                   98d59473-5a47-7742-bcf7-47262b9cada2
        Parent UUID:            -
        Received UUID:          3a932406-8a81-5047-9a23-9333564752c2
        Creation time:          2017-07-12 11:44:16 +0300
        Subvolume ID:           1844
        Generation:             64738
        Gen at creation:        64737
        Parent ID:              5
        Top level ID:           5
        Flags:                  readonly
        Snapshot(s):

What is the missing point here?

Answer 1

In the first case the snapshot /mnt/zencefil/snapshots/rootfs/rootfs.20170705T1334 has been received from an other location before. The original UUID is stored as Received UUID. When transmitting this snapshot again this Received UUID is also used for the copy.

Therefore in order to determine if a snapshot is identical with (that is copy of) another, check if Received UUID of destination is equal to Received UUID of source, if present, or UUID of source, otherwise.