Looking thru the cmds in man zfs and man zpool, and having watched 2 of the basic demos, I wasn't left with confidence about how to carry out common file system tasks.
I'm sorry if this seems horribly obvious but I often a hard time getting simple stuff through my extra thick skull. zfs uses `create' to make directories inside a zpool. Or so it seems from the demos. What about other actions like (mv)move (cp)copy (mv)rename (rm)delete etc etc. The `rename' in man zfs appear to be about something more than files and directories. Same for `destroy' compared to `rm'. I see no action like `mv'.. unless `rename' is used that way. OK, a real situation: created zpool and a few basic directories with `zfs create' From another OS, a win xp backup tool (acronis) connects to the cifs share ..zbk/ and creates a directory and file name... or so I thought. But it turns out I was sloppy in the naming from the windows side. Instead of /zbk/hosts/mob1/022009-full.tib I got /zbk/hosts/mob1022009-full.tib I'd left out one `/' so now I need to create the directory mob1 and rename mob1022009-full.tib to /zbk/hosts/mob1/022009-full.tib So, do I just use the normal unix tools (mkdir and mv) to handle this? Will allowing my user from other OS's to create directories and name files cause me any grief. I guess what I'm asking is: Does a zfs user do common file system chores with standard unix tools inside a zpool? _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
