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Date:      Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:41:31 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To:        Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ticso@cicely.de, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS to support chflags?
Message-ID:  <20070413124130.GF30772@cicely12.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <461F7699.3020808@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200704112004.03903.lists@jnielsen.net> <20070412021645.GQ30772@cicely12.cicely.de> <168809424.20070412205725@serebryakov.spb.ru> <20070412175525.GB30772@cicely12.cicely.de> <461F7699.3020808@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 04:24:57PM +0400, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Bernd Walter wrote:
> 
> >Yes, but dump doesn't support ZFS and with ZFS you can much simpler
>   It is good point :) But flags can be used by `find' to prepare file 
> lists for backup too (on spnapshot, of course!).

Usually file based backup software uses exclude patterns - often
possible to setup in .something files.

> >split out non backup directories in different filesystems.
>   Huh!? At least 2 FS for each active user in system (and 3 for many of 
> them)?

Why not?
With ZFS I only see the kernel mount list as a possible problem, which
AFAIK doesn't scale very well.
Maybe someone else with more knowledge will comment on this point.

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