[zfs-discuss] Re: quickly move files in different zfs in same zpool

2007-06-06 Thread Sean Liu
Post it and forgot it :-) And sincere thanks for so many replies of "This is not right" - which is a standard sysadmin answer - which is probably the same answer I would give out to others as well. Actually I was inviting some answers like "how this can be done" or "this can be done but the cost

[zfs-discuss] quickly move files in different zfs in same zpool

2007-04-12 Thread Sean Liu
In good'ol days if you are moving file/files in the same UFS, it's a snap as the moving is only a change in dir/inode level. Since zfs encourages creating more filesystems instead of dirs, moving can be an issue - data must be moved around instead of being pointed to, so it takes a long time if