17 Oct
2012
17 Oct
'12
2:54 a.m.
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Craig Sanders wrote:
There may be some exceptions where the VM needs to run ZFS itself on a bunch of zvols, but the only real use-case i've found is for experimenting with and testing zfs itself (e.g. i've created numerous zvols of a few hundred MB each and used them in a VM to create a zpool from them)
being able to snapshot and zfs send within the VM itself could be useful. OTOH rsync provides a similar incremental backup.
I have a samba server, and it is very handy to clone and mount yesterday's snapshot to retrieve data quickly. Regards Peter