And would drive storage requirements through the roof!! I like it!
;) Nathan. Jonathan Loran wrote: > > David Magda wrote: >> On Feb 24, 2008, at 01:49, Jonathan Loran wrote: >> >>> In some circles, CDP is big business. It would be a great ZFS offering. >> ZFS doesn't have it built-in, but AVS made be an option in some cases: >> >> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/avs/ > > Point in time copy (as AVS offers) is not the same thing as CDP. When > you snapshot data as in point in time copies, you predict the future, > knowing the time slice at which your data will be needed. Continuous > data protection is based on the premise that you don't have a clue ahead > of time which point in time you want to recover to. Essentially, for > CDP, you need to save every storage block that has ever been written, so > you can put them back in place if you so desire. > > Anyone else on the list think it is worthwhile adding CDP to the ZFS > list of capabilities? It causes space management issues, but it's an > interesting, useful idea. > > Jon > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
