On Aug 24, 2008, at 12:16, Robert wrote: > Since it is said that ZFS can offer unlimited snapshots, I am just > wondering that if there are too many snapshots which consumes too > much space, how can ZFS deal with this?
You tell ZFS to delete the unneeded ones, or you hit 100% disk usage and it returns an error when you do a write(2) call. Automatically doing things behind the user's / sys admin's back is generally not considered proper procedure. If the user wants something done they can write a script, or one be written for them in more "consumer friendly" systems, e.g. many Linux distributions, but since you can't predict where, when, or how functionality will be used, automatic mechanisms are generally avoided in Unix. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
