Re: [zfs-discuss] On-write Automatic Snapshot

2006-05-29 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 5/23/06, Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 04:47:07PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Now if what you really mean is snapshot on file closure I think you > might well be on to something useful. Whats more NTFS has some cool > stuff in this area for consolidat

Re: [zfs-discuss] On-write Automatic Snapshot

2006-05-22 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 04:47:07PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Now if what you really mean is snapshot on file closure I think you > might well be on to something useful. Whats more NTFS has some cool > stuff in this area for consolidating identical files. The hooks that > would need to be

Re: [zfs-discuss] On-write Automatic Snapshot

2006-05-22 Thread Alex Barclay
Darren, thank you for your reply. While it didn't come out correctly (need to brush up on nomenclature), I did mean snapshot on closure. Now if what you really mean is snapshot on file closure I think you might well be on to something useful. Whats more NTFS has some cool stuff in this area fo

Re: [zfs-discuss] On-write Automatic Snapshot

2006-05-22 Thread Darren J Moffat
Alex Barclay wrote: Apologies if this has been addressed, but looking at some of the sun blogs and google searches I have not been able to find an answer. Does ZFS support on write automatic snapshots? For example, according to defined policy, every time a file is written a snapshot is created

[zfs-discuss] On-write Automatic Snapshot

2006-05-22 Thread Alex Barclay
Apologies if this has been addressed, but looking at some of the sun blogs and google searches I have not been able to find an answer. Does ZFS support on write automatic snapshots? For example, according to defined policy, every time a file is written a snapshot is created with the diff stored.