On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:07:40PM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: > I have a ZFS filesystem that I wish to split into two > ZFS filesystems at one of the subdirectories. I understand that I > first need to make a snapshot of the filesystem and then make a clone > of the snapshot, with a different name. Then, in the clone I can move > everything in that subdirectory up to the top level, and in the > original I can remove that subdirectory. All of these operations > should be quick, with no copying of data. > > I understand also that I won't be able to destroy the snapshot because > the clone is dependant on it. Can I just promote the clone and then > destroy the snapshot? Does that remove all dependancies?
No. A clone and the parent filesystem are always bound together through that snapshot. You can't remove it as long as both filesystems remain in existence. > I suppose a simpler case, without the file shuffling, would be to > create a second filesystem as a copy of a first. All of the examples > of this I've seen destroy the first filesystem but don't destroy the > snapshot. I want to do the opposite. Is this possible? Snapshots don't create copies. If you want them to be truly independent, you'd have to create the filesystem and then copy the data manually. -- Darren _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
