On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Brandon High <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Aubrey Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Here, "zfs send tank/root > /mnt/root" doesn't work, "zfs send" can't accept >> a directory as an output. So I use zfs send and zfs receive: > > Really? zfs send just gives you a byte stream, and the shell redirects > it to the file "root" in the fs at /mnt. Provided your shell has large > file support, it should work just fine. > Yeah, it works of course, after I realize "root" is a file, not a directory. This is not what I'm struggling now.
zfs receive will mount the fs after get it from zfs send, but these fs is already mounted on the existing fs, so zfs receive abort.... Any thoughts? Thanks, -Aubrey _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
