I'd like to see if I can easily go back and fix a design error I made. I
have a zpool called datastore, and under that a filesystem called vmimages.
I'm auto-snapshotting at that level, and that's all working fine. However,
there are twenty or so sub-directories under datastore/vmimages, each of
wh
Hi Mark,
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Mark Creamer wrote:
> What I should have done (I think) is set up the zfs file system for each VM
> at the level below ../vmimages, that is: "zfs create
> datastore/vmimages/server1". That way, auto-snapshot would be creating
> snapshots for each VM, rath
Thanks Jan, that sounds easy enough. I'll try it with a non-critical one
that I use for testing but your explanation looks like it will be more
straightforward than I expected. I appreciate the help.
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Jan Owoc wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:53 PM, M
On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:59:13 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Mark,
>
>On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Mark Creamer wrote:
>> What I should have done (I think) is set up the zfs file system for each VM
>> at the level below ../vmimages, that is: "zfs create
>> datastore/vmimages/server1". That way, auto-sna
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Kees Nuyt wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:59:13 -0600, you wrote:
>>Having said that, I believe they need to be mounted in empty
>>directories, so you'd have to do:
>># mv datastore/vmimages/server1 datastore/vmimages/server1.bak
>># zfs create -o [options here] data
Excellent information. Thanks again all
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Jan Owoc wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Kees Nuyt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:59:13 -0600, you wrote:
> >>Having said that, I believe they need to be mounted in empty
> >>directories, so you'd have to do:
> >
