On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 12:58:17PM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: > I'm writing a script to do automatically snapshots and destroy old > one. I think it would be great to add to zfs destroy another option > so only snapshots can be destroyed. Something like: > > zfs destroy -s SNAPSHOT > > so if something other than snapshot is provided as an argument > zfs destroy wouldn't actually destroy it. > That way it would be much safer to write scripts. > > What do you think?
I think that you shouldn't run commands that you don't want run. If you need some safeguards while developing a script, you can always write a wrapper script around zfs(1m). However, 'zfs destroy <fs>' will fail if the filesystem has snapshots (presumably most will, if your intent is to destroy a snapshot), which provides you with some safeguards. --matt _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
