On 14 May 2014 12:27, Discussion list for OpenIndiana < [email protected]> wrote:
> > From: Discussion list for OpenIndiana [mailto:openindiana- > > [email protected]] > > > > It seems that someone should bring up this issue on the zfs list. All > > of the proposed solutions have involved 'tail -1'. This is a > > non-scalable solution which does not work efficiently for any number > > of snapshots. > > What's wrong with it? > > Works for me, and although it could be ever so slightly more convenient to > have an option to "zfs" command, I don't see anything to gain. Maybe 6 > characters less typing... > > "zfs list -r" scans the whole disk for snapshots, and can take time on a disk that has "gone to sleep", or has a large number of snapshots ... it just does. as it happens when I talked on the zfs list, it is possible to quickly search for a specific zfs snapshot, so therefore I can speed up the system by positive discrimination, rather than negative. zfs list -H pool/slice@snaphost and checking on the failures. Jon _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
