> 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 directory node to a filesystem with little > effort, allowing me do everything ZFS does with filesystems on a > subset of my filesystem :)
> 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 <directory> > <newfs>" 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. I think there are some details in the tree that keep you from simply splitting them off immediately. Some of the issues were discussed a while back. I don't know if anyone has tried to work on it or talked about alternative solutions. See also: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=28262 http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6400399 -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
