Yes indeed, but my point was that it was not always so. This change
was something I and others campaigned for quite some time ago.
Indeed, in the early days of ZFS evangelism (when I was still at Sun)
the issue came up rather often. In those days there were even more
reasons not to use a zf
Miles Nordin wrote:
"ph" == Phil Harman writes:
>> "The format of the stream is committed. You will be able to
>> receive your streams on future versions of ZFS."
What Erik said is stronger than the man page in an important way,
though. He said you can dump an old stream
> "ph" == Phil Harman writes:
>> "The format of the stream is committed. You will be able to
>> receive your streams on future versions of ZFS."
What Erik said is stronger than the man page in an important way,
though. He said you can dump an old stream into a filesystem on a new
zp
> It says at the end of the zfs send section of the man page "The format
> of the stream is committed. You will be able to receive your streams on
> future versions of ZFS."
>
> 'Twas not always so. It used to say "The format of the stream is
> evolving. No backwards compatibility is guaranteed. Y
On 12 Nov 2009, at 19:54, "David Dyer-Bennet" wrote:
On Thu, November 12, 2009 13:36, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
I built a fileserver on solaris 10u6 (10/08) intending to back it
up to
another server via zfs send | ssh othermachine 'zfs receive'
However, the new server is too new for 10u6 (1
> *snip*
> I hope that's clear.
Yes, perfectly clear, and very helpful. Thank you very much.
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David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
On Thu, November 12, 2009 13:36, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
I built a fileserver on solaris 10u6 (10/08) intending to back it up to
another server via zfs send | ssh othermachine 'zfs receive'
However, the new server is too new for 10u6 (10/08) and requires a later
ver
On Thu, November 12, 2009 13:36, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> I built a fileserver on solaris 10u6 (10/08) intending to back it up to
> another server via zfs send | ssh othermachine 'zfs receive'
>
> However, the new server is too new for 10u6 (10/08) and requires a later
> version of solaris . pre
I built a fileserver on solaris 10u6 (10/08) intending to back it up to
another server via zfs send | ssh othermachine 'zfs receive'
However, the new server is too new for 10u6 (10/08) and requires a later
version of solaris . presently available is 10u8 (10/09)
Is it crazy for me to try the s
