I believe it would involve data transfer. I have missed that part of your problem, though the idea to replicate skeleton only - whatever that means - looks somewhat non-traditional.
On 6/19/09, Nikhil <[email protected]> wrote: > .. but would not that also involve the data copying as well? I just want > the > skeleton of the filesystem layout on other side. > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Andrey Kuzmin > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Why not just clone/zfs_send to the new machine? >> >> Regards, >> Andrey >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Nikhil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hey ZFS experts, >>> >>> Where is the ZFS metadata stored under? Can it be viewed through some >>> commands? >>> >>> Here is my requirement: I have a machine with lots of ZFS filesystems on >>> it under couple of zpools and there is this another new machine with >>> empty >>> disks, what I want now is the similar layout of the pools, filesystems >>> with >>> quota,reservation and other properties intact along with the naming >>> conventions created on the new machine. >>> >>> How do I create a schema or reverse engineer to run the zfs/zpool >>> commands >>> required to create the similay layout of the zfs filesystems on the new >>> machine. >>> Is there a import stuff like that? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> -- >>> This message posted from opensolaris.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> storage-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss >>> >> >> > > > -- > Nikhil > > Google is Great ! > -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, Andrey _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
