In response to "Pietro Cerutti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 3/13/07, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, March 13, 2007 10:10, Bill Moran wrote: > > > In response to "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> I seem to recall, but cannot find, the limitation on the number of > > >> snapshots allowed on UFS2. Could someone point me in the right > > >> direction please? > > > > > > The handbook has it: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/snapshots.html > > > > > Thank you very much. > > > > Sorry for joining the thread, but it's raised my curiosity: what's the > reason for this limit?
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe it's because snapshot information is stored in the filesystem superblock, and that's all that can fit in the space available in the superblock. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
