Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove the zfs snapshot keeping the original volume and clone

2009-09-01 Thread Henrik Bjornstrom - Sun Microsystems
Thanks for tha answers. Lori Alt wrote: On 08/31/09 08:30, Henrik Bjornstrom - Sun Microsystems wrote: Hi ! Have anyone given an answer to this that I have missed ? I have a customer that have the same question and I want to give him a correct answer. /Henrik Ketan wrote: I created a snap

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove the zfs snapshot keeping the original volume and clone

2009-08-31 Thread Lori Alt
On 08/31/09 08:30, Henrik Bjornstrom - Sun Microsystems wrote: Hi ! Have anyone given an answer to this that I have missed ? I have a customer that have the same question and I want to give him a correct answer. /Henrik Ketan wrote: I created a snapshot and subsequent clone of a zfs volume.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove the zfs snapshot keeping the original volume and clone

2009-08-31 Thread Richard Elling
From the ZFS man page: Clones can only be created from a snapshot. When a snapshot is cloned, it creates an implicit dependency between the parent and child. Even though the clone is created somewhere else in the dataset hierarchy, the original snapshot cannot be des

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove the zfs snapshot keeping the original volume and clone

2009-08-31 Thread Henrik Bjornstrom - Sun Microsystems
Hi ! Have anyone given an answer to this that I have missed ? I have a customer that have the same question and I want to give him a correct answer. /Henrik Ketan wrote: I created a snapshot and subsequent clone of a zfs volume. But now i 'm not able to remove the snapshot it gives me follow

[zfs-discuss] Remove the zfs snapshot keeping the original volume and clone

2009-08-05 Thread Ketan
I created a snapshot and subsequent clone of a zfs volume. But now i 'm not able to remove the snapshot it gives me following error zfs destroy newpool/ldom2/zdi...@bootimg cannot destroy 'newpool/ldom2/zdi...@bootimg': snapshot has dependent clones use '-R' to destroy the following datasets: ne