Hello Matthew, Tuesday, June 13, 2006, 10:43:08 PM, you wrote:
MA> 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? MA> I think that you shouldn't run commands that you don't want run. If you MA> need some safeguards while developing a script, you can always write a MA> wrapper script around zfs(1m). Well, it's like saying that we don't need '-f' option for a zpool. It's just too easy with ZFS to screw up. Using snapshots in ZFS is so easy and penalty free that it'll be common I belive. Many sysadmins will write their own scripts and it's just too easy to destroy a filesystem instead of a snapshot unintentionally. I know you can write wrappers, etc. but it just complicates life while simple option would solve problem. The same with 'zpool destroy' - imho it should never allow destroying a pool if ant fs|clone|snapshot is mounted unless -f is provided. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
