Raquel K. Sanborn wrote:
> I've run across something that would save me days of trouble.
>
> Situation, the contents of one ZFS file system needs to be moved to another 
> ZFS file system. The
> destination can be the same Zpool, even a brand new ZFS file system. A 
> command to move the
> data from one ZFS file system to another, WITHOUT COPYING, would be nice. At 
> present, the data is
> almost 1TB.
>
> Ideally a "zmv" or "zcp" program would be nice.
>
> And no, "zfs send" and "zfs receive" won't do the same thing. Those would 
> require hours, or possibly
> days to copy 1TB to the same Zpool. Plus, I would have to make the source R/O 
> during the copy.
> I can create a new Zpool or send the data to another Zpool that has space, 
> but then I end up with a
> 1TB of un-used space on the original Zpool.
>   

Please follow the thread discussed here last December.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2007-December/044975.html
 -- richard

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