On Fri, 5 May 2006, Marion Hakanson wrote:
> Interesting discussion. I've often been impressed at how NetApp-like
> the overal ZFS feature-set is (implies that I like NetApp's). Is it
> verboten to compare ZFS to NetApp? I hope not
Of course not. And if "Thumper" is similar to the rumoure
On 5/5/06, Constantin Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
(apologies if this has been discussed before, I hope not)
while setting up a script at home to do automatic snapshots, a number of
wishes popped into my mind:
The basic problem with regular snapshotting is that you end up managing
s
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 09:43:05AM -0700, Marion Hakanson wrote:
> Interesting discussion. I've often been impressed at how NetApp-like
> the overal ZFS feature-set is (implies that I like NetApp's). Is it
> verboten to compare ZFS to NetApp? I hope not
It's a public list, you can do the co
I agree and I do not say what you do is wrong, I was just expressing my opinion
after what happend today on my system that there would be an excelent idea to
have such extra feature in ZFS...
Regards,
Chris
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Darren J Moffat wrote:
Krzys wrote:
Maybe there could be a flag
I realy do like the way NetApp is handling snaps :) that would be an excelent
thing in ZFS :)
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Marion Hakanson wrote:
Interesting discussion. I've often been impressed at how NetApp-like
the overal ZFS feature-set is (implies that I like NetApp's). Is it
verboten to compar
Krzys wrote:
Maybe there could be a flag for certain snaps where it could be made
read only?!? But I dont know how this could be implemented and I do not
think that would be possible... Anyway I still think that if I had a
production system with those snaps I would rather remove that "golden
i
Interesting discussion. I've often been impressed at how NetApp-like
the overal ZFS feature-set is (implies that I like NetApp's). Is it
verboten to compare ZFS to NetApp? I hope not
NetApp has two ways of making snapshots. There is a set of automatic
snapshots, which are created, rotate a
Maybe there could be a flag for certain snaps where it could be made read
only?!? But I dont know how this could be implemented and I do not think that
would be possible... Anyway I still think that if I had a production system with
those snaps I would rather remove that "golden image" and conti
Krzys wrote:
I did not think of it this way and it is a very valid point, but I still
think that most likely you would have a backup already on tape if need
be and haveing space available for writing rhather than having no disk
space for live data is much more important than a snap, but thats m
I did not think of it this way and it is a very valid point, but I still think
that most likely you would have a backup already on tape if need be and haveing
space available for writing rhather than having no disk space for live data is
much more important than a snap, but thats my opinion. I t
Krzys wrote:
It would be also nice that if you have many snapshoots and you do run
out of space that the oldest snapshoot would be automatically removed
untill space is freed up. I did setup this snashoot that is beiing made
every minute, then every hour, day and a month, and I finally got to t
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 05:17:43PM +0200, Constantin Gonzalez wrote:
> > But you're right in that my desired functionality can "easily" be
> > implemented
> > with scripts. Then I would still argue for including this functionality as
> > part of the ZF
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 05:17:43PM +0200, Constantin Gonzalez wrote:
> But you're right in that my desired functionality can "easily" be
> implemented
> with scripts. Then I would still argue for including this functionality as
> part of the ZFS user interface, because of ease of use and minimizat
Hi Al,
1) But is this something that belongs in ZFS or is this a backup/restore
type tool that is simply a "user" of zfs?
...
Again - this looks like an operational backup/restore policy. Not a ZFS
function.
So the question is: Is advanced management of snapshots (aging, expiring,
etc.) s
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Constantin Gonzalez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (apologies if this has been discussed before, I hope not)
>
> while setting up a script at home to do automatic snapshots, a number of
> wishes popped into my mind:
>
> The basic problem with regular snapshotting is that you end up managing
It would be also nice that if you have many snapshoots and you do run out of
space that the oldest snapshoot would be automatically removed untill space is
freed up. I did setup this snashoot that is beiing made every minute, then every
hour, day and a month, and I finally got to the point where
Hi,
(apologies if this has been discussed before, I hope not)
while setting up a script at home to do automatic snapshots, a number of
wishes popped into my mind:
The basic problem with regular snapshotting is that you end up managing
so many of them. Wouldn't it be nice if you could assign an
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