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 ZFS user interface, because of ease of use and minimization of
> > possible errors for the administrator. If it ain't simple to use, chances
> > are that people won't. Same goes for snapshots: If admins don't have a
> > really
> > easy way to get rid of them, chances are they will use them less.
>
> I've some scripts that do something like this (snapshot current, delete
> all older snapshots, without forcing it, thus clones keep snapshots
> alive).
>
> Now, the thing about implementing expiration dates is that dealing with
> time in shell scripts can be pretty painful -- it'd be nice if zfs get
> had better time formatting options.
Agreed.
A couple of questions:
- Do you think that zfs (and other subsystems) should use the ISO8601 time
formatting standards?
- I've been writing a lot more scripts in python for about a year now.
The resulting scripts are easy to read/maintain and runtime performance is
not an issue. Well written python is portable and re-usable. Are others
writing scripts in other than ksh/csh these days?
Regards,
Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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