Thanks Darren I found Example 10 and 11 in man zfs as a quick how-to:
Example 10: Remotely Replicating ZFS Data Example 11: Using the zfs receive -d Option As to Q2 about the changes to the pool data and zpool.cache I can find this out by testing. Regards Mark On Friday 27 July 2007 15:06, Darren J Moffat <darrenm at opensolaris.org> may have written: > Mark Furner wrote: > > Thanks for the clarification, Darren, and sorry for cross-posting. > > > > OK, physical device -> pool -> file-system(s) > > > > Some questions: > > > > 1) zpool import allows options similar to zfs. Can I set the same or > > similar read-only (RO) options for the whole pool > > (noexec,nosuid,noatime,nodevices,ro)? > > Not at this time no. > > > 3) In a large pool with several file systems is there any way to image a > > single file system? > > Take a snapshot (using zfs snapshot) then use 'zfs send' to archive that > into an "image". Note the this isn't quite the same as doing a dd of a > ufs filesystem since you can't "mount" that image on its own you would > need to 'zfs recv' it into another pool if you want to look at it using > normal filesystem tools. > > -- > Darren J Moffat
