> > Seems like there's a strong case to have such a program bundled in Solaris. >
I think, the idea of having a separate configurable buffer program with a high feature set fits into UNIX philosophy of having small programs that can be used as building blocks to solve larger problems. mbuffer is already bundled with several Linux distros. And that is also the reason its feature set expanded over time. In the beginning there wasn't even support for network transfers. Today mbuffer supports direct transfer to multiple receivers, data transfer rate limitation, high/low water mark algorithm, on the fly md5 calculation, multi volume tape access, usage of sendfile, and has a configurable buffer size/layout. So ZFS send/receive is just another use case for this tool. - Thomas _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
