[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> The BE recovery stuff I added for pkg(1) should create snapshots with >> a volatile policy. Meaning that if any snapshot is left around after a >> pkg operation it will eventually be removed by the libbe service. > > A volatile policy might be a misnomer. One would hope that a consistent > policy is enforced when dealing with things that sound like transient > snapshots. :P
Yes a consistent policy is enforced by allowing the default settings to preside. > > Would you please explain some more about what the libbe service does > with these snapshots? I'm curious about this eventual removal. > When does it take place, and under what cirumstances? What's the > justification for introducing this type of snapshot? I couldn't explain it any better than section 3 in: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Snap_Upgrade/snap-documents/snap-libbe-design-0.7.pdf Thanks Tim > > -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
