Michael Schuster <michael.schus...@sun.com> wrote:
> >> "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?
>
> no - mv doesn't know about zpools, only about posix filesystems.
mv first tries to rename(2) the file. If this does not succeed but results in
EXDEV, it copies the file.
Jörg
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