On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:35:33AM -0800, Lyle Merdan wrote: > I've tried to find the original source but can't at the moment. I > remember reading that you could essentially make a branch off of a > snapshot and work with that.
It's called "cloning"; you "clone" a snapshot to create a new filesystem whose initial contents is identical to the snapshot. > It's like taking a mirror and breaking it to work with each half... It is similar, but without the data integrity problems (your data remains mirrored), and with different storage usage (there's a maximum wastage of the size of the snapshot). It's very useful when you want a lot of mostly similar filesystems. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
