[...] > > Well yes actually you aren't looking for the snapshots the correct way.
[...] >> No difference, and there is no rpool/dump >> rpool/export >> rpool/export/home >> rpool/export/home/reader >> >> under either snapshot... not to mention all the other stuff shown >> with zfs list -r rpool >> that I snipped. > > That is correct for several reasons. > > 1. some of those are ZVOLS > 2. The .zfs directory is in the root of each filesystem > 3. The /rpool directory isn't actually used to store anything in > the case of the ZFS root pool for an OpenSolaris install. > 4. You can't cross filesystem bounaries in a .zfs directory. > > Try: > > cd /export/home/.zfs/snapshot && ls > cd /export/home/reader/.zfs/snapshot && ls Ahhh I see how it works now... sure enough the snaps are in all the filesystems top directories... all with the same name ... I think that is probably quite useful. > > A snapshot of rpool/dump and rpool/swap is pointless anyway but since > those are ZVOLs you can't 'cd' into a .zfs/snapshot directory for them > since that concept doesn't exist for a ZVOL. Yes of course.. you must have noticed I was trying to make a different point ... not arguing to include useless snaps. Thank for straightening me out on how the -r flag works when creating snapshots. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
