Jeremy Teo wrote:
I'm defining "zpool split" as the ability to divide a pool into 2 separate pools, each with identical FSes. The typical use case would be to split a N disk mirrored pool into a N-1 pool and a 1 disk pool, and then transport the 1 disk pool to another machine.
Can you pick another name for this please because that name has already been suggested for zfs(1) where the argument is a directory in an existing ZFS file system and the result is that the directory becomes a new ZFS file system while retaining its contents.
While contemplating "zpool split" functionality, I wondered whether we really want such a feature because 1) SVM allows it and admins are used to it. or 2) We can't do what we want using zfs send |zfs recv Right now, it's looking mightly close to 1.
What problem are you actually trying to solve ? Just because you did something this way in the SVM world doesn't mean that there should be a 1:1 in the ZFS world - there might be but it doesn't follow that there should be.
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