Just wanted to point this out -- I have a large web tree that used to have UFS user quotas on it. I converted to ZFS using the model that each user has their own ZFS filesystem quota instead. I worked around some NFS/automounter issues, and it now seems to be working fine.
Except now I have to move it to another server. The problem is that there doesn't appear to be any recursive dump/restore command that lets me do this easily. 'zfs send' and 'zfs receive' only appear to work within filesystem boundaries. What I want to do is move all of zfspool/www from server A to server B. Each user filesystem underneath zfspool/www: zfspool/www/user-joe zfspool/www/user-john zfspool/www/user-mary ...has a unique quota assigned to it. There doesn't appear to be a way to move zfspool/www and its decendants en masse to a new machine with those quotas intact. I have to script the recreation of all of the descendant filesystems by hand. I can move the *data* with tar or rsync easily enough, but it seems silly that I have to recreate all the descendant filesystems and their characteristics by hand. I know the "comprehensive dump" subject has been brought up before... I'd like to reiterate a suggestion that it'd be nice if the various commands (zfs send/receive, zfs snapshot) could optionally include a filesystem's descendants. If zfs send could do this and included the filesystem quotas, it might solve this issue. Or maybe I'm missing something? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
