Ross wrote: > Hey Richard, > > I've just seen that somebody else has been caught out by this. Do you think > it would be worth adding an RFE to add 'send to file' support to ZFS send? >
No. Pipes are a foundation of UNIX and are much more flexible than a fixed file interface (as shown below... :-) > I'll be using data piped to file myself, and while I'm not worried about > corruption myself, if ZFS send knows it's sending to a file, it could check > the integrity of the file once the operation completes, which would probably > have helped these guys. > I filed CR 6736837, improve send/receive fault tolerance, which keeps the pipe structure intact. Feel free to pile on. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6736837 > It might also be useful to output a text file containing the checksum so the > integrity of the file can be verified at a later date. > If you redirect to a file, you can use existing checksum commands. You could even check that against what flows out of the send. zfs send | tee filename | digest -a md5 > filename.md5 -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
