Re: [zfs-discuss] [desktop-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-20 Thread Darren J Moffat
Calum Benson wrote: > You're right that they "can", and while that probably does write it off, > I wonder how many really do. (And we could possibly do something clever > like a semi-opaque overlay anyway, we may not have to replace the > background entirely.) Almost everyone I've seen using t

Re: [zfs-discuss] [desktop-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-20 Thread Calum Benson
On 20 Nov 2007, at 14:31, Christian Kelly wrote: > > Ah, I see. So, for phase 0, the 'Enable Automatic Snapshots' option > would only be available for/work for existing ZFSes. Then at some > later > stage, create them on the fly. Yes, that's the scenario for the mockups I posted, anyway... if t

Re: [zfs-discuss] [desktop-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-20 Thread Calum Benson
On 20 Nov 2007, at 15:04, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Calum Benson wrote: >> On 20 Nov 2007, at 13:35, Christian Kelly wrote: >>> Take the example I gave before, where you have a pool called, >>> say, pool1. In the pool you have two ZFSes: pool1/export and >>> pool1/ export/home. So, suppose th

Re: [zfs-discuss] [desktop-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-20 Thread Darren J Moffat
Calum Benson wrote: > On 20 Nov 2007, at 13:35, Christian Kelly wrote: >> Take the example I gave before, where you have a pool called, say, >> pool1. In the pool you have two ZFSes: pool1/export and pool1/ >> export/home. So, suppose the user chooses /export in nautilus and >> adds this to th

Re: [zfs-discuss] [desktop-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-20 Thread Christian Kelly
Calum Benson wrote: > Right, for Phase 0 the thinking was that you'd really have to manually > set up whatever pools and filesystems you required first. So in your > example, you (or, perhaps, the Indiana installer) would have had to > set up /export/home/chris/Documents as a ZFS filesystem in

Re: [zfs-discuss] [desktop-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-20 Thread Calum Benson
On 20 Nov 2007, at 13:35, Christian Kelly wrote: > > Take the example I gave before, where you have a pool called, say, > pool1. In the pool you have two ZFSes: pool1/export and pool1/ > export/home. So, suppose the user chooses /export in nautilus and > adds this to the backup list. Will the

Re: [zfs-discuss] [desktop-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-20 Thread Calum Benson
On 20 Nov 2007, at 12:56, Christian Kelly wrote: > Hi Calum, > > heh, as it happens, I was tinkering with pygtk to see how difficult > this would be :) > > Supposing I have a ZFS on my machine called root/export/home which > is mounted on /export/home. Then I have my home dir as /export/home/

Re: [zfs-discuss] [desktop-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-20 Thread Tim Foster
On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 13:35 +, Christian Kelly wrote: > What I'm suggesting is that the configuration presents a list of pools > and their ZFSes and that you have a checkbox, backup/don't backup sort > of an option. That's basically the (hacked-up) zenity GUI I have at the moment on my blog,

Re: [zfs-discuss] [desktop-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-20 Thread Christian Kelly
> Time Machine is storing all in the system by default, but you still can > select some ones that you don't like to store. And Time Machine don't > use ZFS. > Here we will use ZFS snapshot, and what it's working with is file > system. In Nevada, the default file system is not ZFS, it means some

Re: [zfs-discuss] [desktop-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-20 Thread Henry Zhang
Christian Kelly 写道: > Hi Calum, > > heh, as it happens, I was tinkering with pygtk to see how difficult this > would be :) > > Supposing I have a ZFS on my machine called root/export/home which is > mounted on /export/home. Then I have my home dir as /export/home/chris. > Say I only want to

Re: [zfs-discuss] [desktop-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-20 Thread Christian Kelly
Hi Calum, heh, as it happens, I was tinkering with pygtk to see how difficult this would be :) Supposing I have a ZFS on my machine called root/export/home which is mounted on /export/home. Then I have my home dir as /export/home/chris. Say I only want to snapshot and backup /export/home/chris