Hi Richard, I am not talking about source(ASCII) files. How about versioning production data? I talked about file level snapshots because snapshotting entire filesystem does not make sense when application is changing just few files at a time.
Regards, -atul On 3/30/07, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Atul Vidwansa wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to take file level snapshots in ZFS? Suppose I want to > keep a version of the file before writing new data to it, how do I do > that? My goal would be to rollback the file to earlier version (i.e. > discard the new changes) depending upon a policy. I would like to > keep only 1 version of a file at a time and while writing new data, > earlier version will be discarded and current state of file (before > writing) would be saved in the version. Most folks use SCCS, CVS, or some other version control system for this sort of task. These will work fine on ZFS. -- richard
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