Once data resides within a pool, there should be an efficient method of moving it from one ZFS file system to another. Think Link/Unlink vs. Copy/Remove.
Here's my scenario... When I originally created a 3TB pool, I didn't know the best way carve up the space, so I used a single, flat ZFS file system. Now that I'm more familiar with ZFS, managing the sub-directories as separate file systems would have made a lot more sense (seperate policies, snapshots, etc.). The problem is that some of these directories contain tens of thousands of files and many hundreds of gigabytes. Copying this much data between file systems within the same disk pool just seems wrong. I hope such a feature is possible and not too difficult to implement, because I'd like to see this capability in ZFS. Regards, mikebo -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
