Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshots and backing store

2006-09-13 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 07:38:22AM -0700, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: > There's something really bizarre in ZFS snaphot specs : "Uses no separate > backing store." . It's not at all bizarre once you understand how ZFS works. I'd suggest reading through some of the documentation available at http:/

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS needs a viable backup mechanism

2006-07-28 Thread Scott Howard
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:46:30AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > >>I'm don't have visibility of the Explorer development sites at the > >>moment, but I believe that the last publicly available Explorer I > >>looked at (v5.4) still didn't gather any ZFS related info, which would > >>scare me mig