On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Gerdts wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Thoughts ? Is this useful for anyone else ? My above examples are some >>> of the shorter dataset names I use, ones in my home directory can be >>> even deeper. >> >> Quite usable and should be done. >> >> The key problem I see is how to deal with ambiguity. >> >> # zpool create pool >> # zfs create pool/home >> # zfs set mountpoint=/home pool/home >> # zfs create pool/home/adams (for Dilbert's master) >> ... >> # zfs create pool/home/gerdts (for Me) >> ... >> # zfs create pool/home/pool (for Ms. Pool) >> ... >> # cd /home >> # zfs snapshot [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> What just got snapshotted? > > The dataset named "pool" only. I don't see how that could be ambiguous now > or with what I proposed. > > If you said zfs snapshot -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] then all of them.
Which dataset named pool? The one at /pool (the root of the zpool, if you will) or the one at /home/pool (Ms. Pool's home directory) which happens to be `pwd`/pool. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
