On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:06:13PM -0600, Tim Haley wrote: > NAME > zstreamdump - dump the metadata in a ZFS send stream > > SYNOPSIS > zstreamdump [-vC] > > DESCRIPTION > The zstreamdump command reads a ZFS send stream from stdin and > prints out selected fields from the metadata to stdout. By > default, it also validates the checksums for each of the dataset > streams embedded in the overall send stream. A summary of the > stream contents is printed at the end. > > OPTIONS > The following options are supported: > > -v Verbose mode. All records are dumped. Default is to > only dump the metadata from the BEGIN and END records. > > -C Suppress the validation of checksums. Causes the tool to > run faster.
It'd be nice if zfs recv could do this too, no? Alternatively, it'd be nice if there was a way to slot zstreamdump into a zfs send | ... | zfs recv pipe. E.g., an option to zstreamdump to send its output to a file or to stderr, passing the stream through to stdout for piping elsewhere. Nico --
