Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 20:12:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Storing revisions of large files using ZFS snapshots Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.01.1105312010030.20825@freddy.simplesystems.org> In-Reply-To: <20110601005219.GA11776@icarus.home.lan> References: <FFD730CF-2454-4A07-BA26-0C3B7257780E@itassistans.se> <20110601005219.GA11776@icarus.home.lan>
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On Tue, 31 May 2011, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > We've found that in most cases, a user will overwrite or rm a file which > they didn't mean to and wish to restore just that file. They need to do > so quickly and easily. ZFS and UFS snapshots don't make this easy for > them to accomplish (ZFS is easier than UFS in this regard, absolutely). It seems easy enough to restore the file from .zfs/snapshot. If users find this too difficult, then a small shell script or GUI program can make it easy. The main annoyance with restoring the file from .zfs/snapshot is that restoring the files in this way may consume more disk space. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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