From: Erik Trimble [mailto:erik.trim...@oracle.com]
So the suggestion, or question is: Is it possible or planned to
implement a
rollback command, that works as fast as a link or re-link operation,
implemented at a file or directory level, instead of the entire
filesystem?
so why
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
From: Erik Trimble [mailto:erik.trim...@oracle.com]
So the suggestion, or question is: Is it possible or planned to
implement a
rollback command, that works as fast as a link or re-link operation,
implemented at a file or directory level, instead of
AFAIK, if you want to restore a snapshot version of a file or directory, you
need to use cp or such commands, to copy the snapshot version into the
present. This is not done in-place, meaning, the cp or whatever tool must
read the old version of objects and write new copies of the objects. You
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
AFAIK, if you want to restore a snapshot version of a file or directory, you
need to use cp or such commands, to copy the snapshot version into the
present. This is not done in-place, meaning, the cp or whatever tool must
read the old version of objects and write new
From: Erik Trimble [mailto:erik.trim...@oracle.com]
Not to be a contrary person, but the job you describe above is properly
the duty of a BACKUP system. Snapshots *aren't* traditional backups,
though some people use them as such. While I see no technical reason
why snapshots couldn't
