Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs - filesystem versus directory

2010-07-02 Thread Peter Taps
Thank you all, especially Edward, for the enlightenment. Regards, Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs - filesystem versus directory

2010-07-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Peter Taps > > # zfs create mytest/peter > > where mytest is a zpool filesystem. > > When does it make sense to create such a filesystem versus just > creating a directory? This is a thorny

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs - filesystem versus directory

2010-07-02 Thread Ian Collins
On 07/ 2/10 04:12 PM, Peter Taps wrote: Folks, While going through a quick tutorial on zfs, I came across a way to create zfs filesystem within a filesystem. For example: # zfs create mytest/peter where mytest is a zpool filesystem. When does this way, the new filesystem has the mount point

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs - filesystem versus directory

2010-07-01 Thread Malachi de Ælfweald
I created a zpool called 'data' from 7 disks. I created zfs filesystems on the zpool for each Xen vm I can choose to recursively snapshot all 'data' I can choose to snapshot the individual 'directories' If you use mkdir, I don't believe you can snapshot/restore at that level Malachi de Ælfweal

[zfs-discuss] zfs - filesystem versus directory

2010-07-01 Thread Peter Taps
Folks, While going through a quick tutorial on zfs, I came across a way to create zfs filesystem within a filesystem. For example: # zfs create mytest/peter where mytest is a zpool filesystem. When does this way, the new filesystem has the mount point as /mytest/peter. When does it make sense