On Feb 21, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Matthew Ahrens wrote:
Adrian Saul wrote:
Not hard to work around - zfs create and a mv/tar command and it is
done... some time later. If there was say a "zfs graft
" command, you could just break of the directory as a new
filesystem and away you go - no copying
Hello Nicholas,
Thursday, February 22, 2007, 12:28:32 AM, you wrote:
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On 2/22/07, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
and you want to move huge amount of data from /tank/foo to /tank/bar.
If you use mv/tar/dump it will copy entire data. Much faster will be to
'zfs join tan
On 2/22/07, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
and you want to move huge amount of data from /tank/foo to /tank/bar.
If you use mv/tar/dump it will copy entire data. Much faster will be to
'zfs join tank tank/foo && zfs join tank tank/bar' then just mv the data
and 'zfs split' them b
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:11:43AM -0800, Matthew Ahrens wrote:
> Adrian Saul wrote:
> >Not hard to work around - zfs create and a mv/tar command and it is
> >done... some time later. If there was say a "zfs graft
> >" command, you could just break of the directory as a new
> >filesystem and awa
Adrian Saul wrote:
Not hard to work around - zfs create and a mv/tar command and it is
done... some time later. If there was say a "zfs graft
" command, you could just break of the directory as a new
filesystem and away you go - no copying, no risking cleaning up the
wrong files etc.
Yep, th
> Not sure how technically feasible it is, but something I thought of
> while shuffling some files around my home server. My poor
> understanding of ZFS internals is that the entire pool is effectivly a
> tree structure, with nodes either being data or metadata. Given that,
> couldnt ZFS just cha
Adrian,
Seems like a cool idea to me :-) Not sure if there is anything of this
kind being thought about...
Would be a good idea to file an RFE.
Regards,
Sanjeev
Adrian Saul wrote:
Not sure how technically feasible it is, but something I thought of while
shuffling some files around my home s
Not sure how technically feasible it is, but something I thought of while
shuffling some files around my home server. My poor understanding of ZFS
internals is that the entire pool is effectivly a tree structure, with nodes
either being data or metadata. Given that, couldnt ZFS just change a d
