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

Will Murnane
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:37:45 -0000

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.

Will