Hi Tim, Tim Foster wrote: > Niall Power wrote: >> Bueller? Anyone? > > Yeah, I'd love to know the answer too. The furthest I got into > investigating this last time was: > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2007-December/044787.html > > > - does that help at all Niall?
I dug around and found those few hald pieces for zpools also. Seems to me that there was at least an intention or desire to make things work work with hald. Some further searching around reveals this conversation thread: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=257186 The trail goes cold there though. > > The context to Niall's question is to extend Time Slider to do proper > backups to usb devices whenever a device is inserted. I nearly had this > working with: > > http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_backups_to_usb_mass > http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_backup_0_1 > > but I used pcfs on the storage device to store flat zfs send-streams as > I didn't have a chance to work out what was going on. Getting ZFS plug > n' play on usb disks would be much much cooler though[1]. Exactly. Having zfs as the native filesystem would enable snapshot browsing from within nautilus so it's a requirement for this project. > > cheers, > tim > > [1] and I reckon that by relying on the 'zfs/interval' 'none' setting > for the auto-snapshot service, doing this now will be a lot easier than > my previous auto-backup hack. That could be quite useful alright. We might need to come up with a mechanism to delete the snapshot after it's taken and backed up. Cheers, Niall _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
