Moinak,

That's where confusion sets in ..

In this case I have only one dataset which is complete and for all the 
child FS of the zpool test.

Best Regards,
Madhan Kumar

Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Hi Madhan,
>
>    zfs rollback will only rollback the snapshot for the current dataset. You
> will have to individually rollback each of the other datasets if you want to
> rollback everything.
>
> Regards,
> Moinak.
>
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:07 PM,  <Madhan.Balasubramanian at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Moinak,
>>
>> Didn't work :-(
>> bash-3.00# zfs rollback -r test at complete
>> bash-3.00#  ls -l /test/testfs/1/test
>> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root           0 Jul  1 04:40 /test/testfs/1/test
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Madhan Kumar
>>
>>
>>
>> Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:34 PM,  <Madhan.Balasubramanian at sun.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am having difficulty understanding ZFS rollback option.
>> I'll illustrate it with an example:
>>
>> 1.) I have created 2 FS with the following structure:
>>
>> bash-3.00# zfs list
>> NAME                   USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
>> test                   137K  19.6G  26.5K  /test
>> test/testfs             50K  19.6G  25.5K  /test/testfs
>> test/testfs/1         24.5K  19.6G  24.5K  /test/testfs/1
>>
>>
>> 2.) I take a snapshot of the complete pool:
>>
>> bash-3.00# zfs snapshot -r test at complete
>>
>> 3.) Now I touch a file to differentitate between the snapshot and current
>> state of the FS.
>>
>> bash-3.00# touch /test/testfs/1/test
>>
>> 4.) I rollback to the snapshot:
>>
>> bash-3.00# zfs rollback test at complete
>> bash-3.00# zfs list
>> NAME                   USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
>> test                   205K  19.6G  26.5K  /test
>> test at complete             0      -  26.5K  -
>> test/testfs             94K  19.6G  25.5K  /test/testfs
>> test/testfs at complete  21.5K      -  25.5K  -
>> test/testfs/1           47K  19.6G  24.5K  /test/testfs/1
>> test/testfs/1 at complete  22.5K      -  24.5K  -
>>
>> 5.) Ideally, I'd expect that the file that was created after taking snapshot
>> be gone.  However, I find that it is still present.
>> bash-3.00#  ls -l /test/testfs/1/test
>> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root           0 Jul  1 04:40 /test/testfs/1/test
>>
>> I'll be glad if someone can help me understand why the file hasn't been
>> rolled back.
>>
>>
>>     You should be using zfs rollback -r ... otherwise the individual
>>     filesystem snapshots are not rolled back.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Moinak.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Madhan Kumar
>>
>>
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