> But to create a clone you'll need a snapshot so I > think the problem > will still be there...
This might be a way around this problem though. Deleting files from snapshots sounds like a messy approach in terms of the architecture, but deleting files from clones would be fine. So what's needed is a way to separate a clone from it's snapshot and make it standalone. Once that's done the original snapshot can be deleted, and files can be deleted from the clone. You might loose a few of the benefits of snapshots with this approach, but it would seem a reasonable way of doing this. Can ideas like this be raised with the people developing zfs? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
