On Oct 18, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Sander Smeenk wrote:
Quoting Chris Kirby (chris.ki...@sun.com):
If you have a snapshot named "p...@snap", this:
# rmdir /pool/.zfs/snapshot/snap
is equivalent to this:
# zfs destroy p...@snap
Similarly, this:
# mkdir /pool/.zfs/snapshot/snap
is equivalent to this
Quoting Chris Kirby (chris.ki...@sun.com):
> If you have a snapshot named "p...@snap", this:
> # rmdir /pool/.zfs/snapshot/snap
> is equivalent to this:
> # zfs destroy p...@snap
>
> Similarly, this:
> # mkdir /pool/.zfs/snapshot/snap
> is equivalent to this:
> # zfs snapshot p...@snap
>
> This ca
On Oct 18, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Sander Smeenk wrote:
I tried to indicate that it's strange that rmdir works on the snapshot
directory while files inside snapshots are immutable.
This, to me, is a bug.
If you have a snapshot named "p...@snap", this:
# rmdir /pool/.zfs/snapshot/snap
is equivale
Quoting dick hoogendijk (d...@nagual.nl):
> > Well, thats what i would expect too. It seems strange that you can't
> > edit or remove singular files from snapshots [...]
> That would make the snapshot not a snapshot anymore. There would be
> differences..
I'm well aware of that. You're replying t
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 18:12 +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote:
> Well, thats what i would expect too. It seems strange that you can't
> edit or remove singular files from snapshots [...]
That would make the snapshot not a snapshot anymore. There would be
differences..
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Quoting A Darren Dunham (ddun...@taos.com):
> > i noticed rsync -removes- snapshots even though i am not able to do
> > so myself, even as root, with plain /bin/rm.
> I never liked this interface. I want snapshots to be immutable to
> operations within the filesystem itself.
Well, thats what i w
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 01:42:49PM +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote:
> Recently i switched on 'snapdir=visible' on one of the zfs volumes to
> easily expose the available snapshots and then i noticed rsync -removes-
> snapshots even though i am not able to do so myself, even as root, with
> plain /bin/rm
Hi!
I am new to zfs / opensolaris but getting the hang of it. :)
In my setup i have a large zpool called 'backup' which has zfs'es for
servers that i backup with rsync. I export those zfs'es via NFS to the
remote servers so i have easy access to the most recent backup and the
snapshots which i ma
