On Dec 29, 2007, at 2:33 AM, Jonathan Loran wrote: > Hey, here's an idea: We snapshot the file as it exists at the time of > the mv in the old file system until all referring file handles are > closed, then destroy the single file snap. I know, not easy to > implement, but that is the correct behavior, I believe. > > All this said, I would love to have this "feature" introduced. Moving > large file stores between zfs file systems would be so handy! From my > own sloppiness, I've suffered dearly from the the lack of it.
since in the current implementation a mv between filesystems would have to assign new st_ino values (fsids in NFS should also be different), all you should need to do is assign new block pointers in the new side of the filesystem .. that would also be handy for cp as well --- .je _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
