On Aug 3, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Darren Dunham wrote:
And it's portable. If you use whole disks, you can export the
pool from one machine and import it on another. There's no way
to export just one slice and leave the others behind...
I got the impression that the export command exported the contents
of the pool, not the underlying physical structure (minus the
rust ;o).
Seems that I was wrong.
Correct. You could export a pool that existed on just one of the
slices, but it would be difficult to make that useful. You
couldn't for
example put slice 1 in a new machine and leave slice 4 here.
This also implies that the disk that receives the exported pool
has to be the same size as the exported disk, or can it be bigger ???
Hmm? An 'exported' pool remains on the same media, but is no longer
being used by the host. So the media can be transported and connected
(imported) elsewhere.
It doesn't move the data to new meda (that would be zfs send or the
like).
Oops, seems that I swapped the commands 'export' and 'send' in my head.
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