On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 09:40:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Example (real life scenario): there is a samba server for about 200 > concurrent connected users. They keep mainly doc/xls files on the > server. From time to time they (somehow) currupt their files (they > share the files so it is possible) so they are recovered from backup. > Having versioning they could be said that if their main file is > corrupted they can open previous version and keep working. > ZFS snapshots is not solution in this case because we would have to > create snapshots for 400 filesystems (yes, each user has its filesystem > and I said that there are 200 concurrent connections but there much more > accounts on the server) each hour or so.
Why is creating that many snapshots a problem? The somewhat recent addition of recursive snapshots (zfs snapshot -r) reduces this to a single command. Taking individual snapshots of each filesystem can take a decent amount of time, but I was under the impression that recursive snapshots would be much faster due to the snapshots being committed in a single transaction. Is this not correct? Ed Plese _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
