Re: [zfs-discuss] Is file cloning anywhere on ZFS roadmap

2010-04-21 Thread Schachar Levin
tly clone single files and that would also solve our problem if its somewhere in ZFS road-map (unless the issues we have above can be resolved) Thanks, -- Schachar On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:42 PM, David Magda wrote: > On Wed, April 21, 2010 02:41, Schachar Levin wrote: > > Hi, > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is file cloning anywhere on ZFS roadmap

2010-04-21 Thread Schachar Levin
If I could mount unlimited NFS mounts on ESX it would be good for me, but there is a 64 nfs datastore limit. Right now if I copy a big file it can take several minutes. I already tried having one VM per zfs file system, and snapshot & clone works great, as long as I stay below 64 NFS mounts. No

[zfs-discuss] Is file cloning anywhere on ZFS roadmap

2010-04-20 Thread Schachar Levin
Hi, We are currently using NetApp file clone option to clone multiple VMs on our FS. ZFS dedup feature is great storage space wise but when we need to clone allot of VMs it just takes allot of time. Is there a way (or a planned way) to clone a file without going through the process of actually