Re: [zfs-discuss] Desire simple but complete copy - How?

2009-10-03 Thread Ray Clark
Responding to p...@paularcher.org's sep 30 2009 9:21 post: For the entire file system, I have chosen zfs send/receive, per thread "Best way to convert checksums". I has concerns, they have been answered. Do my immediate need is answered. The question remains as to how to copy portions of tree

Re: [zfs-discuss] Desire simple but complete copy - How?

2009-10-03 Thread Ray Clark
Responding to p...@paularcher.org's sep 30 2009 9:21 post: For the entire file system, I have chosen zfs send/receive, per thread "Best way to convert checksums". I has concerns, they have been answered. Do my immediate need is answered. The question remains as to how to copy portions of tree

Re: [zfs-discuss] Desire simple but complete copy - How?

2009-09-30 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:46 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > x86, OpenSolaris.  But I'm not terribly attracted to the idea of switching > to another, less familiar, virtualization product in hopes that it will > work.  I really rather expected Sun's virtualization product

Re: [zfs-discuss] Desire simple but complete copy - How?

2009-09-30 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: Are you using x86 or sparc? solaris or opensolaris? If opensolaris on x86, you can use xvm (xen) to achieve the same functionality as virtualbox. If sparc T series, you can use LDOM. x86, OpenSolaris. But I'm not terribly attracted to the idea of switching to anoth

Re: [zfs-discuss] Desire simple but complete copy - How?

2009-09-30 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:54 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > On Wed, September 30, 2009 10:07, Robert Thurlow wrote: >> David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> >>> And I haven't been able to make incremental replication send/receive >>> work. >>>  Supposed to be working on that, but now I'm having trouble get

Re: [zfs-discuss] Desire simple but complete copy - How?

2009-09-30 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, September 30, 2009 10:07, Robert Thurlow wrote: > David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >> And I haven't been able to make incremental replication send/receive >> work. >> Supposed to be working on that, but now I'm having trouble getting a >> VirtualBox install that works (my real NAS is physical,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Desire simple but complete copy - How?

2009-09-30 Thread Robert Thurlow
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: And I haven't been able to make incremental replication send/receive work. Supposed to be working on that, but now I'm having trouble getting a VirtualBox install that works (my real NAS is physical, but I'm using virtual systems to test things). I've had good success

Re: [zfs-discuss] Desire simple but complete copy - How?

2009-09-30 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, September 30, 2009 08:21, p...@paularcher.org wrote: >> It appears that I have waded into a quagmire. Every option I can find >> (cpio, tar (Many versions!), cp, star, pax) has issues. File size and >> filename or path length, and ACLs are common shortfalls. "Surely there >> is >> an ea

Re: [zfs-discuss] Desire simple but complete copy - How?

2009-09-30 Thread paul
> It appears that I have waded into a quagmire. Every option I can find > (cpio, tar (Many versions!), cp, star, pax) has issues. File size and > filename or path length, and ACLs are common shortfalls. "Surely there is > an easy answer" he says naively! > > I simply want to copy one zfs filesys

[zfs-discuss] Desire simple but complete copy - How?

2009-09-29 Thread Ray Clark
It appears that I have waded into a quagmire. Every option I can find (cpio, tar (Many versions!), cp, star, pax) has issues. File size and filename or path length, and ACLs are common shortfalls. "Surely there is an easy answer" he says naively! I simply want to copy one zfs filesystem tree