POSIX specification of rename(2) provides a very nice property
for building atomic transcations:
If the old argument points to the pathname of a file that is not a
directory, the new argument shall not po
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 09:33 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Roman V Shaposhnik wrote:
> > On the read-only front: wouldn't it be cool to *not* run zfs sends
> > explicitly but have:
> > .zfs/send/
> > .zfs/sendr/-
> > give you the same data automagica
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 15:06 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> What do you think about the following feature?
>
> "Subdirectory is automatically a new filesystem" property - an administrator
> turns
> on this magic property of a filesystem, after that every mkdir *in the root*
> of
> that filesystem c
I must admit that this question originates in the context of Sun's
Storage 7210 product, which impose additional restrictions on the
kind of knobs I can turn.
But here's the question: suppose I have an installation where ZFS
is the storage for user home directories. Since I need quotas, each
direc
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 09:49 +1300, Ian Collins wrote:
> These posts do sound like someone who is blaming their parents after
> breaking a new toy before reading the instructions.
It looks like there's a serious denial of the fact that "bad things
do happen to even the best of people" on this thre
