On Oct 10, 2012, at 9:29 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) <opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com> wrote:
>> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- >> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Richard Elling >> >>>> If the recipient system doesn't support "zfs receive," [...] >>> >>> On that note, is there a minimal user-mode zfs thing that would allow >>> receiving a stream into an image file? No need for file/directory access >>> etc. >> >> cat :-) > > He was asking if it's possible to do "zfs receive" on a system that doesn't > natively support zfs. The answer is no, unless you want to consider fuse or > similar. Read it again he asked, "On that note, is there a minimal user-mode zfs thing that would allow receiving a stream into an image file?" Something like: zfs send ... | ssh user@host "cat > file" > I can't speak about zfs on fuse or anything - except that I personally > wouldn't trust it. There are differences even between zfs on solaris versus > freebsd, vs whatever, all of which are fully supported, much better than zfs > on fuse. But different people use and swear by all of these things - so > maybe it would actually be a good solution for you. > > The direction I would personally go would be an openindiana virtual machine > to do the zfs receive. > > >>> I was thinking maybe the zfs-fuse-on-linux project may have suitable bits? >> >> I'm sure most Linux distros have cat > > hehe. Anyway. Answered above. > -- richard -- richard.ell...@richardelling.com +1-760-896-4422
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