On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Thomas Burgess wrote: > > > Also consider that you might not want to snapshot the entire pool. > > Snapshots work on the dataset, not the pool (there is no "zpool snapshot" > command :-) > > This is my entire point. Somehow it must have been missed due to me not using my words properly. The OP asked what is the advantage of using separate filesystems instead of just one big filesystem My point is you may want to snapshot SOME stuff but not other stuff. Even if there WAS a snapshot pool function. > What usually trips me up is the auto-snapshot service and inherited > properties. > You will want to make sure and not snapshot those file systems which are > "temporary" in nature. You can do this with the advanced options section > of the Time Slider Manager GUI, or by setting the com.sun:auto-snapshot > parameter appropriately on your datasets. > -- richard > > yes, this is very annoying when this happens =) > ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com > ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance > http://nexenta-atlanta.eventbrite.com (March 16-18, 2010) > > > > >
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