[OpenIndiana-discuss] what to expect setting timeslider to `all'

[Dave Miner]

On 09/ 5/17 07:48 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
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> [...]
> 
> Harry Wrote:
> 
>>> Running:
>>> Openindiana/hipster updated today (170825)
>>>
>>> With timeslider tool enabled and set to `all' should I expect
>>> snapshots only to appear at zfs filesystems that are an endpoint?
>>>
>>> An example I see here:
>>>
>>> With these filesystems created:
>>>
>>> p1/vb
>>> p1/vb/vm
>>>
>>> No snapshots are created at /vb/.zfs/snapshot
>>> That directory exists, but does not get snapshots.
>>>
>>> But, the usual stuff appears at /vb/vm/.zfs/snapshot
>>>
>>>     frequent, hourly, daily, weekly etc updates appear there.
>>>
> 
> 
> Dave Miner <dave.miner at oracle.com> writes:
> 
>> Sounds like an old bug that was fixed some time ago in Solaris, where
>> the exclusion check for recursive snapshots isn't correct.
> 
> 
> This is happening on a recently updated (about 170825 or so) hipster
> OS.
> 
> So if an old bug has recurred somehow, one would think it would be
> getting reported by others on this list.
> 

If hipster is still using old time-slider tarballs from the OpenSolaris 
days then it's probably never been fixed and others aren't reporting it 
for whatever reason.  In a lot of situations it's benign as data is more 
in the leaf datasets than intermediate.

Dave