[SunRay-Users] Re: ZFS time slider

[Bob Doolittle]

Meik Hellmund wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:12:55 -0500
> Bob Doolittle <Robert.Doolittle at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
>
>   
>> I can't argue there :)  Plus you get the awesome ZFS Time Slider.  Might 
>> be a while before you see that in opensuse...
>>     
>
> How network-transparent is the timeslider? Does it work with NFS-mounted homes 
> (the NFS server using ZFS)? 
> Is a configuration with 100 users making individual snapshots of their
> homes really feasible?
>   

I'm afraid I'm not in a good position to discuss the feature in detail.  
You might send your questions to desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org.

Remember that with ZFS snapshots are (essentially) free.  It's only when 
the content changes that any disk data changes occur.  So it seems like 
this should scale pretty well, but that's just my novice observation and 
not based on experience.  It will eat up storage over time, I'm sure, if 
you are aggressive about snapshots and not aggressive about reaping them.

Thanks,
   Bob

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