I guess that's the way I thought it was. Perhaps it would be nice to add such a feature? If something gets stuck in a truckload of snapshots, say a 40GB file in the root fs, it'd be nice to just rm --killemall largefile
Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 97542685 r...@karlsbakk.net http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. ----- "Andrey Kuzmin" <andrey.v.kuz...@gmail.com> skrev: > No, until all snapshots referencing the file in question are removed. > > Simplest way to understand snapshots is to consider them as > references. Any file-system object (say, file or block) is only > removed when its reference count drops to zero. > > Regards, > Andrey > > > > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk > <r...@karlsbakk.net> wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Is it possible to securely delete a file from a zfs dataset/zpool > once it's been snapshotted, meaning "delete (and perhaps overwrite) > all copies of this file"? > > > > Best regards > > > > roy > > -- > > Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk > > (+47) 97542685 > > r...@karlsbakk.net > > http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ > > -- > > I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres > intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å > unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de > fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
