Paul B. Henson wrote:
> Does zfs send/receive have to be done with root
> privileges, or can RBAC or some other mechanism be used so a lower
> privileged account could be used?
You can use delegated administration ("zfs allow someone send pool/fs").
This is in snv_69. RBAC is much more coarse-grained, but you could use it too.
> In the various threads I read about this type of failover, there was some
> issue about marking the filesystems readonly on the slave, or else changes
> would cause snapshots to fail? Supposedly there was some feature added to
> zfs receive to rectify this problem, did that make it into S10U4, or is
> that still only in the development version?
You can do "zfs recv -F", which will discard any changes made since the most
recent snapshot, in order to perform the receive. This is in snv_48 and s10u4.
--matt
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