On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Mattias Pantzare wrote: >> >> Is there a ZFS-specific method for doing that beats the heck of out tar, etc? >> (RTFM indicates there is not; I R'd the FM :^). > > Use zfs send | zfs receive if you wish to keep your snapshots or if > you will be doing the copy several times. You can send just the > changes between two snapshots.
The problem is that 'zfs send' likely preserves the existing block size even if the target pool uses a different block size since it operates at a low level which intends to preserve the original zfs blocks. I would use 'find . -depth -print | cpio -pdum destdir' to do the copy. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
