Re: [zfs-discuss] Fracture Clone Into FS

2007-10-18 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Bill, Thinking about this a little more, would this provide the ability to maintain B and G's data for a rollback followed by a possible roll forward? 1.) Create a clone of snapshot_B (clone_B). 2.) Create a new current snapshot (snapshot_F). 3.) Create a clone of snapshot_F (clone_F). 4.) Pr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fracture Clone Into FS

2007-10-18 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Bill, You've got it 99%. I want to roll E back to say B, and keep G intact. I really don't care about C, D or F. Essentially, B is where I want to roll back to, but in case B's data copy doesn't improve what I'm trying to fix I want to have copy of G's data around so I can go back to how it. M

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fracture Clone Into FS

2007-10-17 Thread Bill Moore
I may not be understanding your usage case correctly, so bear with me. Here is what I understand your request to be. Time is increasing from left to right. A -- B -- C -- D -- E \ - F -- G Where E and G are writable filesystems and the others are snapshots. I think y

[zfs-discuss] Fracture Clone Into FS

2007-10-17 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hey Guys, Its not possible yet to fracture a snapshot or clone into a self-standing filesystem is it? Basically, I'd like to fracture a snapshot/clone into is own FS so I can rollback past that snapshot in the original filesystem and still keep that data. Thank you in advance. Best Regards, Jaso