Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshots and backing store

2006-09-13 Thread David Magda
On Sep 13, 2006, at 10:52, Scott Howard wrote: It's not at all bizarre once you understand how ZFS works. I'd suggest reading through some of the documentation available at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ , in paricular the "Slides" available there. The presentation that 'goe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshots and backing store

2006-09-13 Thread Torrey McMahon
Matthew Ahrens wrote: Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Hi, There's something really bizarre in ZFS snaphot specs : "Uses no separate backing store." . Hum...if I want to mutualize one physical volume somewhere in my SAN as THE snaphots backing-store...it becomes impossible to do ! Really bad. Is there

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshots and backing store

2006-09-13 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: Hi, There's something really bizarre in ZFS snaphot specs : "Uses no separate backing store." . Hum...if I want to mutualize one physical volume somewhere in my SAN as THE snaphots backing-store...it becomes impossible to do ! Really bad. Is there any chance to have a "

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshots and backing store

2006-09-13 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 07:38:22AM -0700, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: > There's something really bizarre in ZFS snaphot specs : "Uses no separate > backing store." . It's not at all bizarre once you understand how ZFS works. I'd suggest reading through some of the documentation available at http:/

[zfs-discuss] Snapshots and backing store

2006-09-13 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi, There's something really bizarre in ZFS snaphot specs : "Uses no separate backing store." . Hum...if I want to mutualize one physical volume somewhere in my SAN as THE snaphots backing-store...it becomes impossible to do ! Really bad. Is there any chance to have a "backing-store-fi