So I'm really exposing my ignorance here, but... You wrote "/... if you wish to keep your snapshots.../"... I never mentioned snapshots, thus you introduced the use of a ZFS snapshot as a method of doing what I wish to do. And yes, snapshots and send are in the manual, and I read about them.
I intially (and perhaps incorrectly) rejected the use of snapshots for my purposes since a snapshot is, by definition, a read-only copy of the file system. What I need to do is copy the file system in it's entirety, so I can mount the new file system read/write for online, production use. Perhaps I should have been clearer about that. I will investigate using ZFS snapshots with ZFS send as a method for accomplishing my task. I'm not convinced it's the best way to acheive my goal, but if it's not, I'd like to make sure I understand why not. Thanks for your interest. /jim Mattias Pantzare wrote: > 2008/7/20 James Mauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Is there an optimal method of making a complete copy of a ZFS, aside from >> the conventional methods (tar, cpio)? >> >> We have an existing ZFS that was not created with the optimal recordsize. >> We wish to create a new ZFS with the optimal recordsize (8k), and copy >> all the data from the existing ZFS to the new ZFS. >> >> Obviously, we know how to do this using conventional utilities and commands. >> >> 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. > > (zfs send is in the FM :-) > > >> This may or may not be a copy to the same zpool, and I'd also be interested >> in >> knowing of that makes a difference (I do not think it does)? >> > > It does not. > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
