Re: [zfs-discuss] any more efficient way to transfer snapshot between two hosts than ssh tunnel?

2012-12-15 Thread Fred Liu
Even with infinite wire speed, you're bound by the ability of the source server to generate the snapshot stream and the ability of the destination server to write the snapshots to the media. Our little servers in-house using ZFS don't read/write that fast when pulling snapshot contents off the

Re: [zfs-discuss] The format command crashes on 3TB disk but zpool create ok

2012-12-15 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-12-14 17:03, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: Suspicion and conjecture only: I think format uses a fdisk label, which has a 2T limit. Technically, fdisk is a program and labels (partitioning tables) are MBR and EFI/GPT :) And fdisk at least in