Hi,
I'm interested in the overhead of making, cloning, and destroying snapshots.
It sounds like the cost for all of these is low, but how low??
For example, could I make snapshots of a system every 5 seconds? every second?
More often than that?
I'm primarily interested in the
you can find the ZFS on-disk spec at:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ondiskformat0822.pdf
I don't know of any way to produce snapshots at periodic intervals
other than shell scripts (or a cron job), but the creation and deletion
of snapshots at command level is fairly
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 09:55:38AM -0700, Tim Wood wrote:
Hi,
I'm interested in the overhead of making, cloning, and destroying snapshots.
It sounds like the cost for all of these is low, but how low??
For example, could I make snapshots of a system every 5 seconds?
every second? More