Clone Benefits

[meenasamy_it]

Hi all
i have read FreeNAS guide and it's amazing book. but i have some questions
Need to know what the benefit of cloning the Snapshot... and where it saves into the ZFS file?
and how to view it and how to access it i try to find it in guide but no more info about it.
so i need to know the benefit of clone.

 

[jgreco]

The primary benefit of cloning, from my point of view, would be that it is a cheap form of sharing the same blocks. Remember that ZFS is a copy-on-write filesystem, so unless you write to a block, a clone and the original would share the same disk space.