6777694 Need ability to control when auto-snapshots are taken
Since I started the zfs-auto-snapshot work back in May 2006, there's been a missing piece of functionality. Well, I'm happy to say - it's missing no longer!
With thanks to Luca Morettoni, we now have a fix for:
6777694 Need ability to control when auto-snapshots are taken
We hashed out some of the details on private mail, then on the mailing list here then a few test scripts from Luca, some paper work, and the integration was done - thanks for your patience Luca! [ involving signing a SCA, sending me a hg export patch which I could push to the repository and waiting for me to push the changes - a few more good patches, and I'd be delighted to give Luca commit privileges to make this a bit easier ]
So now with this changeset, the SMF property "zfs/offset", defined since version 0.1 now actually does something - it takes a value in seconds to specify exactly when the various auto-snapshot cron jobs should fire. As always, bug reports welcome!
I've updated the README with details about this feature. We'll try to get it included in the wos as soon as we can.
Great Work Luca! ;-) I'm very glad (and proud) of the Italian OpenSolaris Community!
Posted by Danilo Poccia on December 09, 2008 at 11:00 AM GMT #
Congratulation Luca! This is GREAT! It shows that there are many ways to work on Open Source. This seems to be a very effective one :)
Posted by Ghee Teo on December 09, 2008 at 11:08 AM GMT #
Thank for the comments, this is a beginning of a great collaboration!
PS: this is the link about my (italian) post about commit: http://morettoni.blogspot.com/2008/12/il-mio-primo-commit.html
Posted by Luca Morettoni on December 09, 2008 at 12:50 PM GMT #