On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Daniel Carosone wrote:
You can use zfs promote to change around which dataset owns the base snapshot, and which is the dependant clone with a parent, so you can deletehe other - but if you want both datasets you will need to keep the snapshot they share.
Right. The other option is to zfs send the snapshot to create a copy instead of a clone. Once the zfs recv completes, the snapshot can be destroyed. Of course, it takes much longer to do this, as zfs is going to create a full copy of the snapshot. The appeal of clones is that they, at least initially, take no extra space, and also that they're nearly instantaneous. But they require the snapshot to remain for the lifetime of the clone.
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