Christine Tran <christine.t...@gmail.com> writes: >> OOps, I may have looked at the wrong bart. > > I think he meant this BART: > http://blogs.sun.com/gbrunett/entry/automating_solaris_10_file_integrity > > I'm going to make one quick comment about this, despite better > judgment to probably keep quiet. I don't think anyone should use ZFS > as a VCS like Subversion ... that's nuts! How many developers on your > project? How many sub projects, how many commits a day? I just > started a new repo and I'm up in the hundreds in a few weeks. Do you > want to keep that many snapshots around? Someone is going to get the > idea to use ZFS like this, and 8 months from now, get bitter and > heart-broken and dump on ZFS for not behaving like a VCS, which it is > not.
I can't tell if you've read the thread or not. I'd guess not since the OP was about a temporary usage for specific single user projects. (This was not spelled out) Probably several days of coding or experimenting at most and always by a single user. The OP stated: > When I do video projects or any projects for that matter. > I sometimes want backups every 10 minutes or so, so as not to loose > some piece of script that isn't finished or the like. So, the usage is as much backup as it is vcs...more really. The special 10 minute or so snapshotting would be a cron run scripted setup that would be turned on during coding and experimentation, and off after wards. The `versions' (snapshots) would be of use only during that time, and would be completely deleted after. Then possibly some resulting script or etc, would get committed in a real vcs. The snapshots themselves would be separate from any default snapshots that might be setup. I'm liking this notion more and more as I've talked about it in this thread. > Someone is going to get the > idea to use ZFS like this, and 8 months from now, get bitter and > heart-broken and dump on ZFS for not behaving like a VCS, which it is > not. That's pretty far fetched but I suppose possible. However with the vast amount of information online about what zfs is, and how to use it, I don't see it being a problem. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
