Tim S. Knitter wrote: >> Could we do something a bit more user friendly by >> allowing the >> 'snapshot' specification to be with the beName >> argument itself? >> E.g. >> beadm create -e origBE at yesterday newBE >> > > Sure. So the -e option will now either take a snapshot or beName instead: > > [-e non-activeBeName | snapshot] > >> Another useful syntax might be to allow the full >> dataset name to >> be specified as the BeName argument: >> >> beadm create -e rpool/ROOT/origBE newBE >> > > OK, however I think it is more user friendly to have the code figure out the > dataset from the beName. Also, allowing the dataset to be passed as the > beName will cause libbe to modify its interfaces to accept a beName or > dataset since libbe is responsible for communicating with libzfs. > If you agree libbe should be changed to handle both types of args then I can > make this change to beadm.
That sounds fine. -ethan > > Tim > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
