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Feature #996

RFE: ZFS dataset option to prevent recursive snapshots from snapshooting this dataset

Added by Jim Klimov over 9 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

Status:
Feedback
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
-
Start date:
2011-05-06
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Medium
Tags:
needs-triage
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Description

This requested feature as I see it is targeted towards recursive snapshooting of "rpool" but exempting "rpool/dump" and "rpool/swap" volumes.

As it happens now, a recursive snapshot of "rpool" also creates snapshots of these two volumes. This reserves lots of space from rpool (to be able to overwrite the volumes' existing data) and generally those blocks are not useful at all.

If a user of such ZFS option wants to explicitly snapshot his swap or dump volume, he can do it by explicitly commanding "zfs snapshot rpool/dump@today".

History

#1

Updated by Jim Klimov over 7 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Feedback

This idea's evolution is now RFE #3568
Arguably this old entry is a "duplicate" now...

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