Re: [zfs-discuss] fwd: ZFS Clone Promotion [PSARC/2006/303 Timeout: 05/12/2006]

2006-05-11 Thread George Wilson
This would be comparable to what live upgrade does with its sync option. With lu, certain files get synced to the newly activated BE just prior to booting it up. (see /etc/lu/synclist) Let's take a filesystem which contains both static application data as well as constantly changing files

Re: [zfs-discuss] fwd: ZFS Clone Promotion [PSARC/2006/303 Timeout: 05/12/2006]

2006-05-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
George Wilson wrote: This would be comparable to what live upgrade does with its sync option. With lu, certain files get synced to the newly activated BE just prior to booting it up. (see /etc/lu/synclist) even in that file there are three different policies: OVERWRITE, APPEND, PREPEND.

Re: [zfs-discuss] fwd: ZFS Clone Promotion [PSARC/2006/303 Timeout: 05/12/2006]

2006-05-11 Thread Nicolas Williams
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ZFS diffs (Re: [zfs-discuss] fwd: ZFS Clone Promotion [PSARC/2006/303 Timeout: 05/12/2006])

2006-05-11 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:38:59PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: What would the output of zfs diffs be ? My original conception was: - dnode # + changed blocks - + some naming hints so that one could quickly find changed dnodes in clones I talked about this with Bill Moore and he came up

Re: [zfs-discuss] fwd: ZFS Clone Promotion [PSARC/2006/303 Timeout: 05/12/2006]

2006-05-11 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:15:12AM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: This situation is analogous to the merge with common ancestor operations performed on source code by most SCM systems; with a named snapshot as the clone base, the ancestor is preserved and can easily be retrieved. Yes, and in

RE: [zfs-discuss] fwd: ZFS Clone Promotion [PSARC/2006/303 Timeout:05/12/2006]

2006-05-10 Thread Morreale, Peter W
Promotion [PSARC/2006/303 Timeout:05/12/2006] FYI folks, I have implemented clone promotion, also known as clone swap or clone pivot, as described in this bug report: 6276916 support for clone swap Look for it in an upcoming release... Here is a copy of PSARC case which is currently under