On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:37:39PM +0100, Mattias Pantzare wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 19:18, Nicolas Williams
> <nicolas.willi...@sun.com> wrote:
> > When you snapshot a ZFS filesystem you get just that -- a snapshot at
> > the filesystem level.  That does not mean you get a snapshot at the
> > _application_ level.  Now, svc.configd is a daemon that keeps a SQLite2
> > database.  If you snapshot the filesystem in the middle of a SQLite2
> > transaction you won't get the behavior that you want.
> >
> > In other words: quiesce your system before you snapshot its root
> > filesystem for the purpose of replicating that root on other systems.
> 
> That would be a bug in ZFS or SQLite2.

I suspect it's actually a bug in svc.configd.

Nico
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