Mike Bo wrote:
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.
Alternatively, (and I don't know if this is feasible,) it might be
easier and/or better to be able to set those properties on, and
independently snapshot regular old sub directories.
Just an idea....
-Kyle
Regards,
mikebo
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