Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Migrating a pool

2007-03-29 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Matthew, Thursday, March 29, 2007, 3:29:36 AM, you wrote: MA> Constantin Gonzalez wrote: >> What is the most elegant way of migrating all filesystems to the new pool, >> including snapshots? >> >> Can I do a master snapshot of the whole pool, including sub-filesystems and >> their snapshot

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating a pool

2007-03-28 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi Matt, cool, thank you for doing this! I'll still write my script since today my two shiny new 320GB USB disks will arrive :). I'll add to that the feature to first send all current snapshots, then bring down the services that depend on the filesystem, unmount the old fs, send a final incremen

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating a pool

2007-03-28 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Constantin Gonzalez wrote: What is the most elegant way of migrating all filesystems to the new pool, including snapshots? Can I do a master snapshot of the whole pool, including sub-filesystems and their snapshots, then send/receive them to the new pool? Or do I have to write a script that wil

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating a pool

2007-03-27 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi, > Today I have about half a dozen filesystems in the old pool plus dozens of > snapshots thanks to Tim Bray's excellent SMF snapshotting service. I'm sorry I mixed up Tim's last name. The fine guy who wrote the SMF snapshot service is Tim Foster. And here's the link: http://blogs.sun.com/t

[zfs-discuss] Migrating a pool

2007-03-26 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi, soon it'll be time to migrate my patchwork pool onto a real pair of mirrored (albeit USB-based) external disks. Today I have about half a dozen filesystems in the old pool plus dozens of snapshots thanks to Tim Bray's excellent SMF snapshotting service. What is the most elegant way of migrat