I've been reading the zfs man page, but I'm confused about dependancies. I have a ZFS filesystem that I wish to split into two ZFS filesystems at one of the subdirectories. I understand that I first need to make a snapshot of the filesystem and then make a clone of the snapshot, with a different name. Then, in the clone I can move everything in that subdirectory up to the top level, and in the original I can remove that subdirectory. All of these operations should be quick, with no copying of data.
I understand also that I won't be able to destroy the snapshot because the clone is dependant on it. Can I just promote the clone and then destroy the snapshot? Does that remove all dependancies? I suppose a simpler case, without the file shuffling, would be to create a second filesystem as a copy of a first. All of the examples of this I've seen destroy the first filesystem but don't destroy the snapshot. I want to do the opposite. Is this possible? -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Group- -Computer and Network Services- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
