On Mar 17, 2010, at 6:57 AM, Khyron wrote: > Rather, I am asking: > > Why do we want to adapt "zfs send" to do something it was never intended > to do, and probably won't be adapted to do (well, if at all) anytime soon > instead of > optimizing existing technologies for this use case?
So when you turn your ZFS box into a VTL, you can use it to store NDMP backups from another ZFS box and recurse until the cows come home :-) The Nexenta community has a plugin for turning your NexentaStor box into a VTL. http://www.nexenta.com/corp/blog/2010/02/19/vtl-for-zfs-based-zvols-cool-and-free-nexentastororg/ -- richard ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance Las Vegas, April 29-30, 2010 http://nexenta-vegas.eventbrite.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
