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Bug ID 6347492
Synopsis snapshots should not pretend to have real properties
State 10-Fix Delivered (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory utility:zfs
Keywords onnv_triage
Responsible Engineer Eric Schrock
Reported Against
Duplicate Of
Introduced In solaris_nevada
Commit to Fix snv_28
Fixed In snv_28
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_28)
Related Bugs
Submit Date 8-November-2005
Last Update Date 3-December-2005
Description 
Right now, we pretend that snapshots have independent properties.  For
example:

# zfs get compression test@now
NAME             PROPERTY       VALUE                      SOURCE
test@now         compression    on                         inherited from test

This doesn't really make sense.  There are really no properties associated
with the snapshot, and pretending that there are promotes confusion that
these properties should be preserved across certain operations (clone,
rollback, backup, etc).  A snapshot really is just a snapshot of data, we 
shouldn't pretend otherwise.
Work Around 
N/A
Comments 
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