On 3/30/10 5:35 AM, Vladimir Marek wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering, will zfs diff work between two zfs pools? > > No. Only between snapshots within the same dataset within the same pool. > I want to know if the current snapshot of my data differs from the > snapshot I created by "zfs send | zfs receive" while ago (on the same > machine, just different pool), so that I should refresh my backup. > > Does 'zfs diff' read all the data in snapshot, or compares just some > checksums and thus is fast? > > We do our best to only read meta-data in finding the differences.
-tim > Thank you >
