Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs clones

2007-01-04 Thread Darren J Moffat
Matthew Ahrens wrote: now wouldnt it be more natural way of usage when I intend to create a clone, that by default the zfs clone command will create the needed snapshot from the current image internally as part of taking the clone unless I explicitely specify that I do want to take a clone of

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs clones

2007-01-03 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Frank Batschulat wrote: it seems taking a clone always requires taking a snapshot first and provide this as a parameter to the zfs clone command. now wouldnt it be more natural way of usage when I intend to create a clone, that by default the zfs clone command will create the needed snapshot

[zfs-discuss] zfs clones

2007-01-02 Thread Frank Batschulat
it seems taking a clone always requires taking a snapshot first and provide this as a parameter to the zfs clone command. now wouldnt it be more natural way of usage when I intend to create a clone, that by default the zfs clone command will create the needed snapshot from the current image

[zfs-discuss] zfs clones

2006-09-01 Thread Marlanne DeLaSource
As I understand it, the snapshot of a set is used as a reference by the clone. So the clone is initially a set of pointers to the snapshot. That's why it is so fast to create. How can I separate it from the snapshot ? (so that df -k or zfs list will display for a 48G drive pool/fs1 4G 40G

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs clones

2006-09-01 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Marlanne DeLaSource wrote: As I understand it, the snapshot of a set is used as a reference by the clone. So the clone is initially a set of pointers to the snapshot. That's why it is so fast to create. How can I separate it from the snapshot ? (so that df -k or zfs list will display for a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs clones

2006-09-01 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 06:03 -0700, Marlanne DeLaSource wrote: As I understand it, the snapshot of a set is used as a reference by the clone. So the clone is initially a set of pointers to the snapshot. That's why it is so fast to create. How can I separate it from the snapshot ? (so that