Hi all

I wonder if there has been any new development on this matter over the past 6 
months.

Today i pondered an idea of zfs-aware "mv", capable of doing zero read/write of 
file data when moving files between datasets of one pool.

This seems like a "(z)cp" idea proposed in this thread and seems like a trivial 
job for sun - who have all APIs and functional implementations for cloning and 
dedup as a means to reference the same block from different files.

Such extension to cp should be cheaper than generac dedup and useful for 
copying any "templated" file sets. i thought of local zones first, but most 
people may init them by packages (though zoneadm says it is copying thousands 
of files), so /etc/skel might be a better example of the usecase - though 
nearly useless ,)

jim
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