Re: Aw: Re: strange behavior of --inplace on ZFS

2014-03-12 Thread Pavel Herrmann
.. > > regards > Roland > > > Gesendet: Freitag, 07. März 2014 um 00:50 Uhr > > Von: "Pavel Herrmann" > > An: "Hendrik Visage" > > Cc: devz...@web.de, "rsync@lists.samba.org" > > Betreff: Re: strange behavior of --inplace on

Aw: Re: strange behavior of --inplace on ZFS

2014-03-07 Thread devzero
Freitag, 07. März 2014 um 00:50 Uhr > Von: "Pavel Herrmann" > An: "Hendrik Visage" > Cc: devz...@web.de, "rsync@lists.samba.org" > Betreff: Re: strange behavior of --inplace on ZFS > > Hi > > apologies for reordering the message parts, an

Re: strange behavior of --inplace on ZFS

2014-03-06 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Correct, it is the shorter way to make a 100% sparse file like dd seek= On 03/06/2014 07:00 PM, Pavel Herrmann wrote: > Hi > > On Thursday 06 March 2014 18:52:44 Kevin Korb wrote: The Linux > equivilent to mkfile is truncate --size. > >> Thanks for

Re: strange behavior of --inplace on ZFS

2014-03-06 Thread Pavel Herrmann
Hi On Thursday 06 March 2014 18:52:44 Kevin Korb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > The Linux equivilent to mkfile is truncate --size. Thanks for the tip however, this produces the exactly same results as dd if=/dev/zero... regards Pavel Herrmann > > On 03/06/2014 0

Re: strange behavior of --inplace on ZFS

2014-03-06 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Linux equivilent to mkfile is truncate --size. On 03/06/2014 06:50 PM, Pavel Herrmann wrote: > Hi > > apologies for reordering the message parts, and for the long bit at > the end > > On Thursday 06 March 2014 23:45:22 Hendrik Visage wrote: >> Q

Re: strange behavior of --inplace on ZFS

2014-03-06 Thread Pavel Herrmann
Hi apologies for reordering the message parts, and for the long bit at the end On Thursday 06 March 2014 23:45:22 Hendrik Visage wrote: > Question: The source and destination folder host OS and are both sides ZFS? no, the remote (source) was ext4. However, i plan to use it against at least one

Re: strange behavior of --inplace on ZFS

2014-03-06 Thread Hendrik Visage
est.dat > > despite that, space calculation on compressed fs is a difficult thing... > > if that gives no pointer, i think that question is better being placed on a > zfs mailing list. > > regards > roland > > > > List: rsync > Subject:strange

Re: strange behavior of --inplace on ZFS

2014-03-06 Thread devzero
pointer, i think that question is better being placed on a zfs mailing list. regards roland List: rsync Subject:strange behavior of --inplace on ZFS From: Pavel Herrmann Date: 2014-02-25 3:26:03 Message-ID: 5129524.61kVAFkjCM () bloomfield [Download message RAW] Hi I

strange behavior of --inplace on ZFS

2014-02-24 Thread Pavel Herrmann
Hi I am extending my ZFS+rsync backup to be able to handle large files (think virtual machine disk images) in an efficient manner. however, during testing I have found a very strange behavior of --inplace flag (which seems to be what I am looking for). what I did: create a 100MB file, rsync, s