Re: Block level snapshots - can I do them in OBSD?

2009-05-24 Thread Paul Bradley
Thanks for the replies, I understand that ZFS is unlikely to be ported to BSD any time soon. My requirements may seem a little puzzling, but I am also restricting the vulnerability of the clients by doing the second level of encryption/decryption (the one that lets the clients see the monolithic

Block level snapshots - can I do them in OBSD?

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Bradley
I am setting up an encrypted fileserver with off-site backup, for one reason and another which I won't go into here for the sake of brevity, I need to block-level snapshot partitions, file-level snapshots as I believe are provided in UFS won't do since the partitions will contain large monolithic f