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Re: RFC: Automated ZFS snapshots using Hanoi algorithm



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Hello Robert,

On 04.12.2011 12:34, Robert Millan wrote:
> See attached patch, the comment header explains everything.  I'm using
> this myself and find it very useful.  I'd like to add this to zfsutils
> (but NOT enable it by default, of course).

inspecting your code I wonder why you want to tie it into zfsutils? You
do not seem to have a hard dependency to it, after all you rely on a
copy-on-write enabled file system and/or volume management only.

I presume, with a few cleanups and a more generic interface to actual
utils your script could be easily used with LVM or btrfs snapshots as well.

Have you considered to make a separate package from it which would be
usable for Linux alternatives?

- -- 
with kind regards,
Arno Töll
IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC
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