Edward Ned Harvey writes:
> > Note also that the data format for the ZFS send/receive mechanism
> > isn't stable.  Unless these two systems are running exactly the same
> > OS build and are upgraded in lock-step fashion, you may run into
> > problems.
> 
> Understood.  I've always been paranoid and obsessive about even "dump" and
> restore for ext3 etc.  Always the same precise exact version.  So I
> appreciate that caution. 

No idea about ext3, but for UFS, dump and restore are safer, because
the UFS on-disk format is a Committed Private interface, and the
utilities generate streamed versions of that same interface.  The same
sort of locking-down just hasn't been done with ZFS yet.

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