zfs bookmark [ -r ] question

[Marcus Reid]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 09:26:41PM -0400, Nikolai Lifanov wrote:
> On 2014-09-23 17:19, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > On 23/09/2014 23:20, Nikolai Lifanov wrote:
> >> I noticed that recursive bookmarks were not made available with the
> >> import of https://www.illumos.org/issues/4369
> >> 
> >> Is there a technical reason for this?
> > 
> > As far as I can see that functionality (-r) was not implemented 
> > upstream, so it
> > was impossible to import it.
> 
> You are right. I'm looking at Illumos git repo and it's not supported. I 
> guess the issue description at the above link is misleading.

I looked into this as well.  As I recall, the stated reason for not
supporting -r is that they had no need for it, and since bookmarks use a
different interface than snapshots it would have been a lot of work.  It
would definitely be a nice feature to have though.

Marcus