For reasons totally unknown to me (perhaps I missed some explenation somewhere, its possible) there seems to be forming a discussion through e-mail instead of these forums. I find this rather peculiar to be honost since I didn't use a webforum to be drawn into a mailinglist discussion. Especially if you keep in mind that when I try to reply to such an email I can only send my response to the author, mail to the list is rejected. So far for the "whining" about how I dislike the way this is going.
So, for the people like me who only want to read these forums, responses so far: [i]You can mitigate this by creating more granular filesystems, e.g. a filesystem per user homedir. This has other advantages like per-user quotas.[/i] I do hope you're joking when you think its feasible to backup all those filesystems on a single basis. ----- [i]I haven't looked at zfs send/receive code but I guess it should be possible to add option to restore only selected files instead of full snapshot.[/i] It should indeed but it is not. As the manuals also state: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/6n7ht6qsc?a=view. In short: "Saving snapshots ? Use the zfs send and zfs receive commands to save and restore a ZFS snapshot. You can save incremental changes between snapshots, but you cannot restore files individually. You must restore the entire file system snapshot." And IMO even worse: "When you restore an incremental file system snapshot, the most recent snapshot must first be rolled back. In addition, the destination file system must exist.". I suddenly don't feel very safe with ZFS anymore to be honost. ----- What can I say, I think that this is possibly the only drawback to using ZFS, however I also think it is a major drawback. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
