As others have said, ZFS works a little differently to a standard file system.
Basically remember that you don't get anything for free. I think of snapshots
as an efficient way of storing backups. You have a copy of all your data, but
it's still a copy that's stored on the disk.
The real ben
Jose Luis Lopez Campoy wrote:
> Good evening!
>
> Here at work we are considering switching our linux-based NAS systems to
> OpenSolaris because of ZFS, but I have some doubts.
>
> Imagine we have a 500Gb hard disk full of data. We do an snapshot of the
> data, for backup or whatever, then we del
Hello,
In the situation you have described, if i understood well, you would not have
any space. When you take a snapshot, your snapshot is referencing the blocks
older than it...
Ex.:
You have a 500gb disk, and create a 5gb file, you got 495gb free space.
So you delete the file, you have
Good evening!
Here at work we are considering switching our linux-based NAS systems to
OpenSolaris because of ZFS, but I have some doubts.
Imagine we have a 500Gb hard disk full of data. We do an snapshot of the data,
for backup or whatever, then we delete those files and try to save another 50
