On 04/18/10 01:25 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
From: Ian Collins [mailto:i...@ianshome.com]But is a fundamental of zfs: snapshot A read-only version of a file system or volume at a given point in time. It is specified as filesys...@name or vol...@name.Erik Trimble's assessment that it would be difficult to implement is much more valuable. Because the above quote is trivial to change.
It's a lot more than that, to quote Eric, it is "a fundamental design decision made when ZFS was started". Snapshots have always been read-only and have defined that way from day one in all publications describing ZFS.
Changing words my be easy, but this more than changing words. -- Ian. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
