I agree with Chris -- I'd much rather do something like:
zfs clone snap1 clone1 snap2 clone2 snap3 clone3 ...
than introduce a pattern grammar. Supporting multiple snap/clone pairs
on the command line allows you to do just about anything atomically.
Jeff
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:46:33AM -0500, Chris Kirby wrote:
> On Mar 27, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> > a) that is probably what is wanted most of the time anyway
> > b) it is easy to pass from userland to kernel - you pass the
> > rules (after some userland sanity checking first) as is.
>
>
> But doesn't that also exclude the possibility of creating non-pattern
> based
> clones in a single txg?
>
> While I think that allowing multiple clones to be created in a single
> txg
> is perfectly reasonable, we shouldn't need to artificially restrict the
> clone namespace in order to achieve that.
>
> -Chris
>
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