Re: [zfs-discuss] Data movement across filesystems within a pool

2010-04-26 Thread devsk
Could this be a future enhancement for ZFS? Like provide 'zfs move fs1/path1 fs2/path2', which will do the needful without really copying anything? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data movement across filesystems within a pool

2010-04-24 Thread devsk
This is really painful. My source was a backup of my folders which I wanted as filesystems in the RAIDZ setup. So, I copied the source to the new pool and wanted to be able to move those folders to different filesystems within the RAIDZ. But its turning out to be a brand new copy and since its

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data movement across filesystems within a pool

2010-04-24 Thread devsk
Is there anything anybody has to advise? Will I be better of copying each folder into its own FS from source pool? How about removal of the stuff that's now in this FS? How long will the removal of 770GB data containing 6millions files take? Cost1: copy folders into respective FS + remove

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data movement across filesystems within a pool

2010-04-24 Thread Richard Elling
Search the archives. This dead horse gets beaten about every 6-9 months or so. -- richard On Apr 24, 2010, at 7:37 AM, devsk wrote: Is there anything anybody has to advise? Will I be better of copying each folder into its own FS from source pool? How about removal of the stuff that's now

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data movement across filesystems within a pool

2010-04-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, devsk wrote: This is really painful. My source was a backup of my folders which I wanted as filesystems in the RAIDZ setup. So, I copied the source to the new pool and wanted to be able to move those folders to different filesystems within the RAIDZ. But its turning out

[zfs-discuss] Data movement across filesystems within a pool

2010-04-23 Thread devsk
I would have thought that the file movement from one FS to another within the same pool would be almost instantaneous. Why does it take to platter for such a movement? # time cp /tmp/blockfile /pcshare/1gb-tempfile real0m5.758s # time mv /pcshare/1gb-tempfile . real0m4.501s Both FSs