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Date:      Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:40:15 -0400
From:      Marcus Reid <marcus@blazingdot.com>
To:        Nikolai Lifanov <lifanov@mail.lifanov.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: zfs bookmark [ -r ] question
Message-ID:  <20140924024014.GA49256@blazingdot.com>
In-Reply-To: <68e59516484bc319ca4f2c773db1a61d@mail.lifanov.com>
References:  <5421D604.9050009@mail.lifanov.com> <5421E3EF.4080704@FreeBSD.org> <68e59516484bc319ca4f2c773db1a61d@mail.lifanov.com>

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On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 09:26:41PM -0400, Nikolai Lifanov wrote:
> On 2014-09-23 17:19, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > On 23/09/2014 23:20, Nikolai Lifanov wrote:
> >> I noticed that recursive bookmarks were not made available with the
> >> import of https://www.illumos.org/issues/4369
> >> 
> >> Is there a technical reason for this?
> > 
> > As far as I can see that functionality (-r) was not implemented 
> > upstream, so it
> > was impossible to import it.
> 
> You are right. I'm looking at Illumos git repo and it's not supported. I 
> guess the issue description at the above link is misleading.

I looked into this as well.  As I recall, the stated reason for not
supporting -r is that they had no need for it, and since bookmarks use a
different interface than snapshots it would have been a lot of work.  It
would definitely be a nice feature to have though.

Marcus



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