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From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@vitsch.net>
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Subject: Re: mksnap_ffs time
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On Friday 04 January 2008 00:30:20 you wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > 1) Is anyone else seeing this?
>
> As far as I know, this is somehow related to the SoftUpdates, but I am not
> 100% sure. Look at the mailinglist archives, there was a discussion a few
> months ago about the same topic as far as I remember.
>
> Please note that according to
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/snapshots.html
> a filesystem can only have 20 snapshots! :-)

Hmm.. Then at least time spent per snapshot isn't going to get much worse than 
it is today ;-)
Too bad this limitation isn't mentioned in 'man 8 mksnap_ffs'. If this 
limitation is still there, I think it deserves a place in the manual.


Thanks!
-- 
Daan