Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
disclaimer: I have not used zfs snapshots a lot as I am still
experimenting with zfs, but they appear to be similar to freebsd
snapshots, with which I am familiar.
The user experience with snapshots, in terms of file versioning (#1,
#2, maybe #3) is much worse than a true file versioning user
experience. People are oriented to their files, not to snapshots.
And I may not want versioning with all my files (object files etc)
which you would get with the snapshots.
Chad
You can't turn off and on File Versioning at the file level. At least, I
can't imaging trying to support (i.e. write) this kind of functionality
into ZFS. File Versioning would be a tunable parameter for each
filesystem. So, you'd have to store your object files on a different
filesystem than your code. Which would make snapshots no different than
FV, w/r/t keeping versions of the code, and not the object files.
-Erik
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