hmmmm.... reading man pages with correct interpretation is always difficult. :-)
Thanks a lot for your help! best Regards, Madhan Kumar Moinak Ghosh wrote: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:43 PM, <Madhan.Balasubramanian at sun.com> wrote: > >> Hi Moinak, >> >> Since I had created the snapshot at the zpool level, I had expected it to >> work with -r option when executing test at complete. >> >> Executing a rollback @ /test/testfs/1 level worked. >> >> So wondering what is the use of -r option as testfs and testfs/1 descend >> from the test. >> > > Just checked the manpage. > '-r' for taking a snapshot will recursively traverse all child datasets and > take individual snapshots for each. > '-r' when doing a rollback is different. While rolling back to a snapshot > it will rollback and destroy all snapshots newer than the one specified > (if they exist) for the given dataset. It will not recurse into > child datasets. > > Regards, > Moinak. > > >> Best Regards, >> Madhan Kumar >> >> Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:24 PM, <Madhan.Balasubramanian at sun.com> wrote: >> >> >> Moinak, >> >> That's where confusion sets in .. >> >> In this case I have only one dataset which is complete and for all the child >> FS of the zpool test. >> >> >> That is not the case. If you see the the zfs list carefully you have 3 >> independent snapshots, one for the zfs dataset for the pool and one >> each for the 2 additional child datasets. The pool itself has a default >> zfs dataset that is mounted under /test. >> >> Regards, >> Moinak. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ug-bosug mailing list >> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080701/3640f753/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Madhan_Balasubramanian.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 174 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080701/3640f753/attachment.vcf>
