On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:58 -0700, Rob wrote: > > The other changes that will appear in 0.11 (which is > > nearly done) are: > > Still looking forward to seeing .11 :)
Wow, there's one user out there at least! Thanks! > Think we can expect a release soon? (or at least svn access so > that others can check out the trunk?) Nearly. Here's what's going on: I'm working closely with Niall Power of the Desktop team at Sun who is (along with Erwann Chenede) tackling the requirement to have ZFS snapshots managed out of the box for OpenSolaris 2008.11: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/problem_statement/#DSK-5 To this end, they've decided to use with the existing zfs-auto-snapshot code, and put a proper GUI on top of it, rather than start from scratch. (I suck at writing GUIs, so this is way cool!) So far, we've come across a few parts of the core service that make it a little bit harder to have it "just work" from a GUI perspective, so I've been working to add those into the existing core codebase. These are: * checking for missed snapshot on service start * a new "zfs/fs-name" keyword "##". The existing keyword "//" is inclusive, it only snapshots filesystems marked with a given property. The new keyword "##" adds exclusive support: it snapshots every filesystem except those set with a given property. * RBAC stuff - still haven't written this yet, but I think running the service under a role with the "ZFS File System Management" profile will be enough. * Collecting the default instances into a single group, giving us an easier way to enable/disable all of the current default service instances from the GUI. (we're still working out how best to do this, and whether that big on/off switch should be elsewhere or not) The new code will continue to be backwards compatible with previous releases: manifests from 0.1 upwards will still work just fine with 0.11.  The plan is to split the code into two packages, one being the core SMF service + canned instances, the other being the GUI code. For now, we've got a new Mercurial repository at: hg clone ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/jds/zfs-snapshot It's just got most versions up to 0.10 in there at present, I'll commit the 0.11 changes as soon as we're happy with them, hopefully in the next week or two. The code is under the JDS project for now, ultimately I'd like to get the core service into ON at some point, but that'll need more ample free time than I've got right now :-) cheers, tim
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