-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You are missing the snapshot part of it. You send/receive a snapshot then both ends have the same snapshot.
On 11/30/12 13:00, Tim Gustafson wrote: >> If you are using zfs then why not use zfs send and zfs receive? >> >> Rsync has to stat every file on both ends which can take a long >> time with millions of files. The zfs tools don't have to do any >> of that. > > Because zfs send/receive doesn't work well if the target file > system ever gets changed, even for something like an atime. > Basically, the file system can't be touched on the remote end, and > you can't even set the read-only property, because that would be a > filesystem-level change that wouls break the send/receive. Unless > I'm not understanding something. > - -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlC49QwACgkQVKC1jlbQAQc8FgCg/4yhqZZe03SF+DUhH7xVNIJV AoIAn1a37QZlo8YlOnbuEp1orHyASzuh =SinR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html