Nicolas Williams wrote: > It'd be awesome to have a native directory->dataset conversion feature > in ZFS. And, relatedly, fast moves of files across datasets > in the same > volume. These two RFEs have been discussed to death in the list; see > the archives.
This would be a nice feature to have. The most compelling technical problem I've seen in the idea of "reparenting" a directory to be a top-level dataset is that when a zfs filesystem is used, open files on that filesystem have a particular devid. In order to split off the directory onto a new zfs filesystem, you'd have to atomically change the devid inside all the processes that have open files under that directory. Finding those open files is practically impossible. --Joe _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
