[zfs-discuss] [RFC] Improved versioned pointer algorithms

Daniel Phillips
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:55:18 -0000

On Monday 21 July 2008 14:37, Will Murnane wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 17:22, Daniel Phillips <phillips at
phunq.net> wrote:
> > But that is not my point.  My point is that there is no way to recover
> > the volume space used by my example file short of deleting both the
> > clone and the snapshot.
> Not so.  Use "zfs promote" to make the clone into a full-fledged
> independent, and then destroy the snapshot.

What if you don''t want it to be a full fledged independent, but
instead continue to share as much storage as possible with the
original filesystem?  It seems to me that the promote would likely
waste even more disk space.

Regards,

Daniel