On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:43:08PM -0700, Matthew Ahrens wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 12:58:17PM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote:
> > I'm writing a script to do automatically snapshots and destroy old
> > one. I think it would be great to add to zfs destroy another option
> > so only snapshots can be destroyed. Something like:
> >
> > zfs destroy -s SNAPSHOT
> >
> > so if something other than snapshot is provided as an argument
> > zfs destroy wouldn't actually destroy it.
> > That way it would be much safer to write scripts.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I think that you shouldn't run commands that you don't want run. If you
> need some safeguards while developing a script, you can always write a
> wrapper script around zfs(1m).
Alternatively, you could just make sure your argument always has a '@' in
it:
zfs destroy -s [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cheers,
- jonathan
> However, 'zfs destroy <fs>' will fail if the filesystem has snapshots
> (presumably most will, if your intent is to destroy a snapshot), which
> provides you with some safeguards.
>
> --matt
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