On Feb 3, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Frank Cusack <frank+lists/z...@linetwo.net> > wrote: > >> On February 3, 2010 12:19:50 PM -0500 Frank Cusack >> <frank+lists/z...@linetwo.net> wrote: >>> If you do need to know about deleted files, the find method still may >>> be faster depending on how ddiff determines whether or not to do a >>> file diff. The docs don't explain the heuristics so I wouldn't want >>> to guess on that. >> >> An improvement on finding deleted files with the find method would >> be to not limit your find criteria to files. Directories with >> deleted files will be newer than in the snapshot so you only need >> to look at those directories. I think this would be faster than >> ddiff in most cases. > > So was there a final consensus on the best way to find the difference between > two snapshots (files/directories added, files/directories deleted and > file/directories changed)? > > Find won't do it, ddiff won't do it, I think the only real option is rsync. > Of course you can zfs send the snap to another system and do the rsync there > against a local previous version.
bart(1m) is designed to do this. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
