Rather than rehash this, again, from scratch. Refer to a previous rehashing.
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=15363&;
-- richard
Peter Schuller wrote:
Hello,
with the advent of clones and snapshots, one will of course start
creating them. Which also means destroying them.
Am I the only one who is *extremely* nervous about doing "zfs destroy
some/[EMAIL PROTECTED]"?
This goes bot manually and automatically in a script. I am very paranoid
about this; especially because the @ sign might conceivably be
incorrectly interpreted by some layer of scripting, being a
non-alphanumeric character and highly atypical for filenames/paths.
What about having dedicated commands "destroysnapshot", "destroyclone",
or "remove" (less dangerous variant of "destroy") that will never do
anything but remove snapshots or clones? Alternatively having something
along the lines of "zfs destroy --nofs" or "zfs destroy --safe".
I realize this is borderline being in the same territory as special
casing "rm -rf /" and similar, which is generally not considered a good
idea.
But somehow the snapshot situation feels a lot more risky.
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