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You'll need an OpenSolaris.org account to file the RFE of course. On Jul 17, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Will Murnane wrote: > I would like to request an additional flag for the command line zfs > tools. Specifically, I'd like to have a -t flag for "zfs destroy", as > shown below. Suppose I have a pool "home" with child filesystem > "will", and a snapshot "home/[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Then I run the > following commands: > # zfs destroy -t volume home/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > zfs: not destroying home/[EMAIL PROTECTED], as it is not a volume. > # zfs destroy -t snapshot home/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (succeeds) > # zfs destroy -t snapshot home/will > zfs: not destroying home/will, as it is not a snapshot. > # zfs destroy -t volume home/will > zfs: not destroying home/will, as it is not a volume. > # zfs destroy -t filesystem home/will > (succeeds) > > Now, to test the behavior of '-r', I recreate the same structure as > before, and run some more commands: > zfs destroy -r -t snapshot home > (succeeds) > zfs list -Hro name > home > home/will > > One more time, to demonstrate -R: > zfs clone home/[EMAIL PROTECTED] home/oldwill > zfs destroy -R -t snapshot home > (???) > The two ways I can think of at this point are to destroy the clone as > well, or to promote it and then destroy the snapshots. Or, I suppose, > make -R incompatible with -t for zfs destroy. > > I imagine this would be easy to implement, and for scripting use it > would be a good sanity check; if you're trying to clean up snapshots > you don't accidentally kill the filesystems by messing up some string > operation and naming a valid filesystem by mistake. Especially with > -r, this could prevent silly mistakes. > > Also, it might be a helpful thing to add to 'zfs get'; if one wants to > see some property for all user home directories and not the snapshots > of them, syntax like > zfs get used -r -t filesystem home > could list the "used" property of all the children of the home > filesystem. This is a slightly different semantic from the proposed > "zfs destroy" enhancement: it's a filter rather than a predicate. I > think this is the Right Thing to do with this flag, and it will be > intuitive for users. > > Any suggestions on better specifying the behavior? How can I formally > propose this? I'd be glad to implement it if would help this get > finished. > > Thanks! > Will > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
