On 14 May 2014 14:24, Discussion list for OpenIndiana < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
<snip> > There is nothing wrong with using "tail -1" as Bob said. If the question > you're trying to answer, is "what's the latest snapshot of the specified > filesystem" that's just fine ... And in fact, the thread is about "Finding > the last snapshot." > Agreed ... I am trying to find the last snapshot, but I am now able to limit it to exclude the snapshots that succeeded. on the "zfs" list, Matthew Ahrens from delphix posted a neat idea for incorporation into zfs: https://github.com/delphix/delphix-os/commit/95378d0bc82aeec9c2f7833f569cffcb86aa3c63 which would do the job admirably :) > So I'll agree, you might not want to list *all* snapshots on the whole > system. You might benefit by naming the zvol or filesystem. But there is > still nothing wrong with using tail to find the last one. > nothing wrong with tail, but there is a problem with "zfs list -r" on systems with a large number of filesystems and a large number of snapshots. thanks everyone. Jon _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
