>On Tue, January 5, 2010 10:12, casper....@sun.com wrote: > >>>How about creating a new data set, moving the directory into it, and then >>>destroying it? >>> >>>Assuming the directory in question is /opt/MYapp/data: >>> 1. zfs create rpool/junk >>> 2. mv /opt/MYapp/data /rpool/junk/ >>> 3. zfs destroy rpool/junk >> >> The "move" will create and remove the files; the "remove" by mv will be as >> inefficient removing them one by one. >> >> "rm -rf" would be at least as quick. > >Normally when you do a move with-in a 'regular' file system all that's >usually done is the directory pointer is shuffled around. This is not the >case with ZFS data sets, even though they're on the same pool? >
Only within a single zfs you can "rename" files; but within a zpool but on different zfs's, you will need to copy and remove. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
