hi all , when doing several zfs snapshot of a given fs, there are dependencies between snapshots that complexify the management of snapshots is there a plan to easy thes dependencies, so we can reach snapshot functionalities that are offered in other products suchs as Compellent (http://www.compellent.com/products/software/continuous_snapshots.aspx) Compellent software allows to set **retention periods** for different snapshots and will manage their migration or deletion automatically thanks s.
On April 16, 2007 10:24:04 AM +0200 Selim Daoud <selim.daoud at gmail.com> wrote:> hi all , > > when doing several zfs snapshot of a given fs, there are dependencies > between snapshots that complexify the management of snapshots > is there a plan to easy thes dependencies, so we can reach snapshot > functionalities that are offered in other products suchs as Compellent > (http://www.compellent.com/products/software/continuous_snapshots.aspx) > > Compellent software allows to set **retention periods** for different > snapshots and will manage their migration or deletion automaticallyretention period is pretty easily managed via cron
Frank Cusack wrote:> On April 16, 2007 10:24:04 AM +0200 Selim Daoud > <selim.daoud at gmail.com> wrote: >> hi all , >> >> when doing several zfs snapshot of a given fs, there are dependencies >> between snapshots that complexify the management of snapshots >> is there a plan to easy thes dependencies, so we can reach snapshot >> functionalities that are offered in other products suchs as Compellent >> (http://www.compellent.com/products/software/continuous_snapshots.aspx) >> >> Compellent software allows to set **retention periods** for different >> snapshots and will manage their migration or deletion automatically > > retention period is pretty easily managed via cronYeah but cron isn''t easily managed by anything. :-P