[OpenIndiana-discuss] Time-slider percentages

[Jim Klimov]

23 августа 2015 г. 20:40:57 CEST, Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> пишет:
>Hello, Harry.
>
>Harry Putnam писал 23.08.2015 21:31:
>> On OS's like OI 151_a9, when the `time-slider' app from
>> menu System/administration/time-slider is in working order, I'm
>> curious why the percentage allowed for snapshots is so high?
>> 
>> On my setup, `the time-slider manager' allows 70-90 % of disk space
>to
>> be set for the storage of snapshots... above your choice the oldest
>> get deleted.
>> 
>> That seems like an awfully high percentage... even at the lowest
>> setting of 70%.
>
>It seems you misunderstand this setting. It says "clean up snapshots 
>when > 70% of filesystem space is used",
>it is not "> 70 is used by snapshots". And this seems reasonable. 
>However, I suspect that
>having hard-coded 70 and 90% is a bit strange, I'd allow user to set 
>whatever he wants.
>
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I believe it is not hardcoded, just the defaults set by packaged zfs-auto-snapshot smf service. Can be changed there too (svccfg -s ... editprop; svcadm refresh ...)

Jim
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