2009/3/19 Matthew Ahrens <matthew.ahr...@sun.com>

> José Gomes wrote:
>
>> Can we assume that any snapshot listed by either 'zfs list -t snapshot' or
>> 'ls .zfs/snapshot' and previously created with 'zfs receive' is complete and
>> correct? Or is it possible for a 'zfs receive' command to fail
>> (corrupt/truncated stream, sigpipe, etc...) and a corrupt or incomplete
>> snapshot to exist after the command failed? Thoughts on this would be much
>> appreciated.
>>
>
> If a 'zfs recv' fails for any reason (bad stream, system crash, etc), its
> space will be reclaimed.  The snapshot won't appear in the namespace until
> it has been successfully received.
>
> --matt
>

Great. Thank you, Matthew.
J.
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