Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: File level cloning

2009-10-30 Thread Jeffry Molanus
@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: File level cloning create a dedicated zfs zvol or filesystem for each file representing your virtual machine. Then if you need to clone a VM you clone its zvol or the filesystem. Jeffry Molanus wrote: I'm not doing anything yet; I just wondered if ZFS provides

Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: File level cloning

2009-10-29 Thread Robert Milkowski
create a dedicated zfs zvol or filesystem for each file representing your virtual machine. Then if you need to clone a VM you clone its zvol or the filesystem. Jeffry Molanus wrote: I'm not doing anything yet; I just wondered if ZFS provides any methods to do file level cloning instead of

[zfs-discuss] FW: File level cloning

2009-10-28 Thread Jeffry Molanus
I'm not doing anything yet; I just wondered if ZFS provides any methods to do file level cloning instead of complete file systems. Basically I want a zero-size-increase copy of a file. A while ago BTRFS developers added this feature to the fs by doing a specialized ioctl call. Maybe this isn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] FW: File level cloning

2009-10-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Jeffry Molanus wrote: I'm not doing anything yet; I just wondered if ZFS provides any methods to do file level cloning instead of complete file systems. Basically I want a zero-size-increase copy of a file. A while ago BTRFS developers added this feature to the fs by doing