"Anton B. Rang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >People are oriented to their files, not to snapshots.
>
> True, though with NetApp-style snapshots, it's not that difficult to
> translate 'src/file.c' to '.snapshot/hourly.0/src/file.c' and see what it was
> like an hour ago. I imagine that a syntax like '.snapshot/22:20/src/file.c'
> would also be easy to use. (On the other hand, zfs currently requires
> knowledge of where the file system is rooted, and knowledge of where the
> current directory is within that filesystem, which IMHO is somewhat confusing
> to users and requires far too much typing.)
>
AFAIR, netapp has problems caused by the fact that the inode numbers
for the snapshots reside on the same fs.
Jörg
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