An underutilized, yet very powerful ZFS feature is the pool “checkpoint”.
This is only accessible via the command-line.
The “checkpoint” would be more useful if it could be managed and viewed by the GUI.
Some additional thoughts:
- Accessed, managed, and viewed via the pool’s status page
- Should be visible in the dashboard and/or pool list page
- Perhaps can be “offered” during the import stage, if a user wishes to rollback to a checkpoint?
- Perhaps can be incorporated into the “Alerts” if a checkpoint consumes more than X amount of space?
Here is the ticket:
Manage and view pool “checkpoints” in the GUI
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Davvo
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I bet less savvy users would confuse it with snapshots and wondr why they have no more space left on their pool.
Tooltips and documentation should clear that up!
* For those who actually read such things.
Stux
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Would perhaps be good as part of a core → scale migration….
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I hate to see these things happen…
