On 2012-10-17 13:54, Peter Ross wrote:
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.
Peter, if you don't already know about it, and are running Windows desktops, you may like to investigate the Samba Shadow Copy VFS modules: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/VFS.html#id265169... It makes snapshots acecssible via the "Previous Versions" tab of the Windows File Properties dialogue box. -- Regards, Matthew Cengia