On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:13:16AM -0700, Brad Plecs wrote:
>
> If we must contain snapshots inside a filesystem, perhaps it's
> possible to set a distinct quota for snapshot space vs. live data
> space? I could then set snapshot quotas for my filesystems
> arbitrarily large for my administrative backups, or down to the
> filesystem size or some other value if there has been delegated
> authority for the filesystem.
This is the purpose of the above RFE. I'm not sure how what you're
asking for is any different.
> in fact, I think a lot of ZFS's hierarchical features would be more
> valuable if parent filesystems included their descendants (backups and
> NFS sharing, for example), but I'm sure there are just as many
> arguments against that as for it.
They do include their children for NFS shares[1], and recursive
send/receive is in the works.
- Eric
[1] Unless you want only a single NFS-visible mount. This requires a
client-side NFSv4 feature known as 'mirror mounts', but there is
no way in the (current) NFS spec to detect whether the client
supports the notion.
--
Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock
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