One use case for "cloned" workspaces or "seeded" workspaces, is "prebuilt workspaces" for very large builds.
Is this supported in ZFS? What would it take to add this capability to the zfs roadmap? This would be very useful. Our use case is as following 1. Our fully built software build workspaces can be 800GB+ 2. We have a nightly build that builds the whole workspace 800GB, done by a generic user "buildusr" 3. We then snapshot that workspace with zfs snapshotting capability. 3. We want the developer, "sarvi", to be able to clone from that snapshot and be able to incremental software build and development in the cloned workspace or the seeded filesystem/workspace. Problem: All the content, files, directories in the cloned workspace are still owned by "buildusr" and not "sarvi", which causes my builds to fail with permission problems. Is there anything in zfs that can help. For that matter any of the open source filesystems support seeding or snapshot/cloning that you might be aware of. So far the only filesystem that seems have the capability map/change the file ownership as part of the clone operation is Netapp. And unfortunately that isn’t open source and wont serve our purpose. Thanks, Sarvi Occam’s Razor Rules ------------------------------------------ openzfs: openzfs-developer Permalink: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T82313bf565b8e09c-M13c2e2146ed1eb8e7eb21d9c Delivery options: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription
