[zfs-discuss] associating an unmodified clone file with an origin snapshot

2009-09-08 Thread John Zolnowsky x69422/408-404-5064
The context is a file in a dataset cloned from a snapshot. If the file has not been modified since the clone was created, I'd like to ascribe to the file attributes associated with the origin snapshot. 1) Is it feasible to determine from the vnode relating to the clone file if that

[zfs-discuss] snapshot identity

2009-02-02 Thread John Zolnowsky x69422/408-404-5064
The Validated Execution project is investigating how to utilize ZFS snapshots as the basis of a validated filesystem. Given that the blocks of the dataset form a Merkel tree of hashes, it seemed straightforward to validate the individual objects in the snapshot and then sign the hash of the root