On Mon 21 Apr 2008 at 12:56PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> If that's the case, we should find a more appropriate and descriptive
> name for this policy.
Would any of this be helped by being able to store some extra metadata
with the snapshot itself? I find the use of the *name* of the snapshot
to name the policy we'll treat it with to be... vile.
I'd like the team to consider what enhancements we might want to
drive with the ZFS team.
-dp
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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp
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