s/on/off :) And ZFS snapshots are the same way. Matt ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Closson Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:31 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: ZFS snapshots I can only talk about filesystem snapshots that I know. With veritas and the upcoming polyserve snapshots, if all files are in one directory, a snapshot looks EXACTLY like a database that was running on a system where the power was turned on. Exactly.