From ab24acb0d13c6067587f821825901d12ff774dc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Salter Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:47:32 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] atomicity notes --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5bffa68..7d23417 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Which would be enough to tell sanoid to take and keep 36 hourly snapshots, 30 da + --take-snapshots - This will process your sanoid.conf file, create snapshots, but it will NOT purge expired ones. Note that snapshots are not atomic relative to one another. + This will process your sanoid.conf file, create snapshots, but it will NOT purge expired ones. (Note that snapshots taken are atomic in an individual dataset context, not a global context - snapshots of pool/dataset1 and pool/dataset2 will each be internally consistent and atomic, but one may be a few filesystem transactions "newer" than the other.) + --prune-snapshots