Andrew Gabriel <andrew.gabr...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Dan Shelton wrote:
> > Is anyone aware of any freeware program that can speed up copying tons
> > of data (2 TB) from UFS to ZFS on same server?
>
> I use 'ufsdump | ufsrestore'*. I would also suggest try setting
> 'sync=disabled' during the operation, and reverting it afterwards.
> Certainly, fastfs (a similar although more dangerous option for ufs)
> makes ufs to ufs copying significantly faster.
>
> *ufsrestore works fine on ZFS filesystems (although I haven't tried it
> with any POSIX ACLs on the original ufs filesystem, which would probably
> simply get lost).
star -copy -no-fsync .... is typically 30% faster that ufsdump | ufsrestore.
Jörg
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