On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Nice! > : > :It would be nice if hammer(8) included a command to list all PFSs > :(maybe pfs-status without arguments); > :this could be used for a general way to iterate PFSs. > :Is this info saved in a HAMMER fs? > : > :A few questions: > : - `hammer snapshot' is a per PFS operation, right? > > It should be. I've gone over that code several times and it restricts > the scan to a single PFS, but I haven't actually tested that it works > as advertised.
>From practical experience with ZFS (which permits what are effectively nested PFSs), an operation that permits atomic snapshots across a set of filesystems would be very handy. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Goth is the new black.
