Still reading, but would like to correct one point. > * It would seem that ZFS is deeply wedded to the > concept of a single, > linear chain of snapshots. No snapshots of > snapshots, apparently. > http://blogs.sun.com/ahrens/entry/is_it_magic
Writable snapshots are called "clones" in zfs. So infact, you have trees of snapshots and clones. Snapshots are read-only, and you can create any number of "writable" clones from a snapshot, that behave like a normal filesystem and you can again take snapshots of the clones. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
