Hi, I have a master pfs and slave pfs in two differrent disks.
#hammer pfs-status /Backup1/Data /Backup1/Data PFS #1 { sync-beg-tid=0x0000000000000001 sync-end-tid=0x00000001000204b0 shared-uuid=94063778-6ac7-11de-a994-011617202aa6 unique-uuid=940637b5-6ac7-11de-a994-011617202aa6 label="" operating as a MASTER snapshots dir for master defaults to <fs>/snapshots } #hammer pfs-status /Backup2/Data /Backup2/Data PFS #1 { sync-beg-tid=0x0000000000000001 sync-end-tid=0x00000001000204b0 shared-uuid=94063778-6ac7-11de-a994-011617202aa6 unique-uuid=b015e877-6ac7-11de-a994-011617202aa6 slave label="" operating as a SLAVE snapshots directory not set for slave } master in null mounted and slave has a soft link to the real pfs /Backup1/pfs/@@-1:00001 on /Backup1/Data (null, local) dfly-bkpsrv# ls -l /Backup2/Data lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 17 Jul 7 13:18 /Backup2/Data -> /Backup2/pfs/Data Now I ssh into the system through an xterm (xterm1) and move to the master. # pwd /Backup1/Data Now I ssh into the system through another xterm (xterm2) and move to slave # pwd / # cd /Backup2/Data # pwd /Backup2/pfs/@@0x00000001000204b0:00001 # Now in xterm1 I create a test file in the master pfs # touch test # ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 7 13:44 test # Then I do a hammer mirror copy ( in xterm1 ) to slave # hammer mirror-copy /Backup1/Data /Backup2/Data Mirror-read: Mirror from 00000001000204b1 to 00000001000204f0 Mirror-read /Backup1/Data succeeded # Now I check the slave in xterm2 # pwd /Backup2/pfs/@@0x00000001000204b0:00001 # ls # it shows nothing. but if I check it with the full path ( in xterm2 ) it shows the file is mirrored. # ls -l /Backup2/Data/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 7 13:44 test Why is this so? now I delete the "test" file and mirror-copy again. # rm test # hammer mirror-copy /Backup1/Data /Backup2/Data Mirror-read: Mirror from 0000000100020371 to 0000000100020370 Mirror-read: No work to do Mirror-read /Backup1/Data succeeded It says no work to do! and the file is left in the slave. Unfortunately the "no work to do" part could not be reproduced by me. But the first part is reproducible. thanks --Siju