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

[Harry Putnam]

Dave Miner <dave.miner at oracle.com> writes:

> On 09/ 5/17 07:48 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> 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.

Yes, that last bit is true, but still I'd rather be able to set that
in timeslider config myself.

Perhaps a choice in timeslider gui is in order... that is, make the
current `all' choice really mean `all' and add something like
`terminal file systems only'  for folks who want that default
behavior.

Sounds a lot like loading busy folks up with more (maybe only
marginally useful) work.

So for now I will follow Alexander P's suggestion and create an issue
on bug tracker.  (May take a bit of time for me to figure out the
procedure for doing that)