Re: RFC: Automated ZFS snapshots using Hanoi algorithm

2011-12-07 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Robert, On 07.12.2011 21:41, Robert Millan wrote: > 2011/12/4 Arno Töll : >> well, let's find out. I'm sending a copy to LVM and btrfs maintainers >> asking them for their opinions. > > It didn't seem like an enthusiastic response. I've put this

Re: RFC: Automated ZFS snapshots using Hanoi algorithm

2011-12-07 Thread Robert Millan
2011/12/4 Arno Töll : > well, let's find out. I'm sending a copy to LVM and btrfs maintainers > asking them for their opinions. It didn't seem like an enthusiastic response. I've put this in the package, if someone wants to port it to other platforms later on, we can always talk about splitting o

Re: RFC: Automated ZFS snapshots using Hanoi algorithm

2011-12-04 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello you all, On 04.12.2011 15:58, Robert Millan wrote: > What I could do is make a separate package out of it, and then if > someone finds it useful enough to invest their own time in porting / > testing it, merge their patches into the package.

Re: RFC: Automated ZFS snapshots using Hanoi algorithm

2011-12-04 Thread Robert Millan
2011/12/4 Arno Töll : > inspecting your code I wonder why you want to tie it into zfsutils? You > do not seem to have a hard dependency to it, after all you rely on a > copy-on-write enabled file system and/or volume management only. > > I presume, with a few cleanups and a more generic interface t

Re: RFC: Automated ZFS snapshots using Hanoi algorithm

2011-12-04 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Robert, On 04.12.2011 12:34, Robert Millan wrote: > See attached patch, the comment header explains everything. I'm using > this myself and find it very useful. I'd like to add this to zfsutils > (but NOT enable it by default, of course). ins

RFC: Automated ZFS snapshots using Hanoi algorithm

2011-12-04 Thread Robert Millan
See attached patch, the comment header explains everything. I'm using this myself and find it very useful. I'd like to add this to zfsutils (but NOT enable it by default, of course). Can you comment / test / improve / give feedback in general? # This algorithm implements a variation of the Towe