Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Start with desired end state in mind...

2008-02-29 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi, great, thank you. So ZFS isn't picky about finding the target fs already created and attributed when replicating data into it. This is very cool! Best regards, Constantin Darren J Moffat wrote: > Constantin Gonzalez wrote: >> Hi Darren, >> >> thank you for the clarification, I didn't kn

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Start with desired end state in mind...

2008-02-29 Thread Darren J Moffat
Constantin Gonzalez wrote: > Hi Darren, > > thank you for the clarification, I didn't know that. > >> See the man page for zfs(1) where the -R options for send is discussed. > Back to Brad's RFS, what would one need to do to send a stream from a > compressed filesystem to one with a different c

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Start with desired end state in mind...

2008-02-29 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi Darren, thank you for the clarification, I didn't know that. > See the man page for zfs(1) where the -R options for send is discussed. oh, this is new. Thank you for bringing us -R. Back to Brad's RFS, what would one need to do to send a stream from a compressed filesystem to one with a diff

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Start with desired end state in mind...

2008-02-29 Thread Darren J Moffat
Constantin Gonzalez wrote: > Hi Brad, > > this is indeed a good idea. > > But I assume that it will be difficult to do, due to the low-level nature > of zfs send/receive. > > In your compression example, you're asking for zfs send/receive to > decompress the blocks on the fly. But send/receive o

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Start with desired end state in mind...

2008-02-29 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi Brad, this is indeed a good idea. But I assume that it will be difficult to do, due to the low-level nature of zfs send/receive. In your compression example, you're asking for zfs send/receive to decompress the blocks on the fly. But send/receive operates on a lower level: It doesn't care muc

[zfs-discuss] RFE: Start with desired end state in mind...

2008-02-29 Thread Brad Diggs
I love the send and receive feature of zfs. However, the one feature that it lacks is that I can't specify on the receive end how I want the destination zfs filesystem to be be created before receiving the data being sent. For example, lets say that I would like to do a compression study to d