ZFS to support chflags?

[Bernd Walter]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 04:24:57PM +0400, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Bernd Walter wrote:
> 
> >Yes, but dump doesn't support ZFS and with ZFS you can much simpler
>   It is good point :) But flags can be used by `find' to prepare file 
> lists for backup too (on spnapshot, of course!).

Usually file based backup software uses exclude patterns - often
possible to setup in .something files.

> >split out non backup directories in different filesystems.
>   Huh!? At least 2 FS for each active user in system (and 3 for many of 
> them)?

Why not?
With ZFS I only see the kernel mount list as a possible problem, which
AFAIK doesn't scale very well.
Maybe someone else with more knowledge will comment on this point.

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