On Apr 13, 2010, at 5:22 AM, Tony MacDoodle wrote: > I was wondering if any data was lost while doing a snapshot on a running > system?
ZFS will not lose data during a snapshot. > Does it flush everything to disk or would some stuff be lost? Yes, all ZFS data will be committed to disk and then the snapshot is taken. Applications can take advantage of this and there are services available to integrate ZFS snapshots with Oracle databases, Windows clients, etc. -- richard ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance Las Vegas, April 29-30, 2010 http://nexenta-vegas.eventbrite.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
