On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Craig Sanders wrote:

> There may be some exceptions where the VM needs to run ZFS itself
> on a bunch of zvols, but the only real use-case i've found is for
> experimenting with and testing zfs itself (e.g. i've created numerous
> zvols of a few hundred MB each and used them in a VM to create a zpool
> from them)
>
> being able to snapshot and zfs send within the VM itself could be useful.
> OTOH rsync provides a similar incremental backup.

I have a samba server, and it is very handy to clone and mount yesterday's 
snapshot to retrieve data quickly.

Regards
Peter
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