On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bryan Tong Minh schrieb:
>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> Tripling space requirements seems a bit of overkill. Maybe there's a smarter
>>> solution. Ideas?
>>>
>> ZFS snapshots?
>
> I'm clueless. Tell me more... how does it work? How much space does it 
> require?
>
Snapshots take virtually no space when created. They start to consume
space as soon as a file that is present in a snapshot is changed in
the real filesystem. Undoubtly river would know more about it.


Bryan

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