* Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-20 02:04]: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Tim Knitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 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 > > Tim, these code changes looks good to me. > > Also, the "volatile" policy explanation makes sense now. If i > understand it correctly, "volatile" policy here means that the file is > automatically managed and will be removed whenever deemed necessary by > libbe.
The static/volatile terminology is not... well chosen. Did you come up with other naming choices? What if a site wants more than two retention policies? I also don't understand why the policy name needs to be embedded in the snapshot name, if you're already placing it as an attribute on the dataset. I'll go look at the code, but this part of the design will need further discussion. - Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
