On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:23:44PM +0100, Tim Foster wrote: > This could be easily implemented via a set of SMF instances which > create/destroy cron jobs which would themselves call a simple script > responsible for taking the snapshots.
There was talk a while back about an extended cron service with support for XML job manifests that would get us way beyond current crontab time specs and which would understand dependencies on SMF services and on other extended cron jobs. A tie in with FMA would also be desirable, I imagine. I think this is, pretty much, what you want here. At the ZFS level I think all we need is the right basic building block functionality: user-defined pool and FS properties, better date formatting, querying by date, including relative formats. A "demo" facility that layers atop ZFS+SMF+FMA+'cronX' to do all that has been proposed here and more would rock. Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
