ufs snapshot help

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 04/23/15 13:04, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> Also, by default, S+J is enabled. Journaling is incompatible with
> snapshots.
>
> - M
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:38 AM, jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Luca,
>> On 23 April 2015 at 02:27, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978 at infinito.it> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 6:08 AM, jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> While zfs is the better choice for virtually everything, I can't quite
>>>> support it on my old hardware--plus I want to learn the basics.
>>>>
>>> That is: ZFS is not for good for all!
>>>
>>>> Following this simple page:
>>>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/snapshots.html
>>>>
>>>> # mount -u -o snapshot /var/snapshot/snap /var
>>>> mount: /var/snapshot/snap: Invalid argument
>>> I suspect you are trying to snapshot a filesystem that does not exist.
>>> Do you have a separate filesystem for /var?
>>>
>>
>> You're correct. New installs of FreeBSD don't seem to setup separate
>> partitions. Did they ever?
>>
>>> Luca
>>
>>
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I thought S+J (soft-updates + Journaling) was incompatible in general, 
it think it was as of last summer when I was getting this box up & 
running .... 9.3R, BTW ....

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