Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:49:04 +0100 From: Bartosz Stec <admin@obsysa.net> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_Ankerst=E5l?= <peter@pean.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs snapshots. Message-ID: <4CF949B0.5060405@obsysa.net> In-Reply-To: <4CF017C8-9D3C-483D-B508-5BF70E32AA14@pean.org> References: <4CF017C8-9D3C-483D-B508-5BF70E32AA14@pean.org>
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On 2010-12-03 20:40, Peter Ankerstål wrote: > Is there a way to take a snapshot without using space from the parent filesystem? > > -- > Peter Ankerstål > peter@pean.org > http://www.pean.org/ > AFAIK snapshot doesn't take any space as long as filesystem hasn't changed from the time when snapshot was taken. For instance - If you take snapshot on filesystem and after that, 10MB file is deleted, snapshot is using only 10MB space from (because it's only difference between snapshot and actual filesystem). -- Bartosz Stec
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