On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Vadim Comanescu <va...@syneto.net> wrote: > Is there any way you can display the parent of a dataset by zfs (get/list) > command ? I do not need to list for example for a dataset all it's children > by using -r just to get the parent on a child. There are way's of grepping > and doing some preg matches but i was wondering if there is any way by doing > this directly. Thanks.
If you know the current dataset name, there's no real need to have the parent as a property. Just subtract the last "/" and any trailing characters. Heck, you could use 'dirname' in scripts to do it for you. bh...@basestar:~$ zfs list -o name rpool/ROOT/snv_134 NAME rpool/ROOT/snv_134 bh...@basestar:~$ dirname rpool/ROOT/snv_134 rpool/ROOT -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
