We have finished a beta version of the feature. A webrev for it can be found here:
http://cr.illumos.org/~webrev/sensille/fits-send/ It adds a command 'zfs fits-send'. The resulting streams can currently only be received on btrfs, but more receivers will follow. It would be great if anyone interested could give it some testing and/or review. If there are no objections, I'll send a formal webrev soon. Thanks, Arne On 10.10.2012 21:38, Arne Jansen wrote: > Hi, > > We're currently working on a feature to send zfs streams in a portable > format that can be received on any filesystem. > It is a kernel patch that generates the stream directly from kernel, > analogous to what zfs send does. > The stream format is based on the btrfs send format. The basic idea > is to just send commands like mkdir, unlink, create, write, etc. > For incremental sends it's the same idea. > The receiving side is user mode only, so it's very easy to port it to > any system. If the receiving side has the capability to create > snapshots, those from the sending side will get recreated. If not, > you still have the benefit of fast incremental transfers. > > My question is if there's any interest in this feature and if it had > chances of getting accepted. Also, would it be acceptable to start with > a working version and add performance optimizations later on? > > -Arne _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
