Re: [zfs-discuss] 2 items on the wish list

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 07:04:58PM -0400, Dale Ghent wrote: > > Re-reading your question is occurs to me that you might be referring > to the ability to mount a snapshot on *another server* ? Yes, I believe that's what he's talking about. He's thinking the way a clustered filesystem would work

Re: [zfs-discuss] 2 items on the wish list

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:58:31AM +0300, Mertol Ozyoney wrote: > Ability to mount snap shots somewhere else. [this doesnt look easy, perhaps > a proxy kind of set up ? ] Snapshots are available through .zfs/snapshot/. Snapshots are read-only. They can be cloned to create read-write filesystems

Re: [zfs-discuss] 2 items on the wish list

Re-reading your question is occurs to me that you might be referring to the ability to mount a snapshot on *another server* ? There's no built-in feature in zfs for that, but a workaround would be to do what I just detailed, with the additional step of exporting that cloned snapshot to the

Re: [zfs-discuss] 2 items on the wish list

On Jun 27, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Mertol Ozyoney wrote: > Hi all ; > > There are two tinhs that some customers are asking for constantly > about ZFS. > > Ability to mount snap shots somewhere else. [this doesnt look easy, > perhaps a proxy kind of set up ? This feature has been in ZFS since day 1.

[zfs-discuss] 2 items on the wish list

Hi all ; There are two tinhs that some customers are asking for constantly about ZFS. Active active clustering support. Ability to mount snap shots somewhere else. [this doesnt look easy, perhaps a proxy kind of set up ? ] Any hope for these features? Mertol