On Oct 11, 2012, at 6:03 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) <opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com> wrote:
>> From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] >> >> Read it again he asked, "On that note, is there a minimal user-mode zfs thing >> that would allow >> receiving a stream into an image file?" Something like: >> zfs send ... | ssh user@host "cat > file" > > He didn't say he wanted to cat to a file. But it doesn't matter. It was > only clear from context, responding to the advice of "zfs receive"ing into a > zpool-in-a-file, that it was clear he was asking about doing a "zfs receive" > into a file, not just cat. If you weren't paying close attention to the > thread, it would be easy to misunderstand what he was asking for. Pedantically, a pool can be made in a file, so it works the same... > > When he asked for "minimal user-mode" he meant, something less than a > full-blown OS installation just for the purpose of zfs receive. He went on > to say, he was considering zfs-fuse-on-linux. ... though I'm not convinced zfs-fuse supports files, whereas illumos/Solaris does. Perhaps a linux fuse person can respond. -- richard -- richard.ell...@richardelling.com +1-760-896-4422
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