Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 12:32:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Bernd Luevelsmeyer <bernd@heitec.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/80534: Enumeration of filesystem snapshots Message-ID: <200505021032.j42AWFho078541@tostan.admin.er.heitec.net> Resent-Message-ID: <200505021140.j42Be2J9038955@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 80534 >Category: bin >Synopsis: Enumeration of filesystem snapshots >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon May 02 11:40:02 GMT 2005 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Bernd Luevelsmeyer >Release: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE >Description: There doesn't seem to exist a way to enumerate active filesystem snapshots taken with mksnap_ffs other than "find /path -flags snapshot". >How-To-Repeat: mksnap_ffs /usr /usr/some/path/some/file ... let a few days pass ... ... forget the filename ... ... try to get rid of the snapshot ... >Fix: Since the kernel maintains the snapshots, it should be easy for the kernel to report the filenames in some way. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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