[BALUG-Admin] Root Cause Analysis (RCA)*: Re: S/N bobble -- waiting for Michael P. on this 8-O ... "fixed"[1]

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu):

> Yup ... one (or a few) step(s) closer to being able to better monitor
> such a potential boo-boo.

Just a sudden wild idea, not necessarily a practical one:  Just as
software tools in the _conventional_ (non-VM) use case to ensure that
zonefile S/Ns always go forwards and never backwards have advantages,
one might imagine a wrapper for VM image files that builds a timestamp
into the filename and enforces always moving forwards (or not moving) in
time and never going backwards.