On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:49:38PM +0000, Darren J Moffat wrote: > 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.
But zpool(1M) and zfs(1) do such different things that I wouldn't be confused by it. However, an option to detach seems much better to me, as in detach a mirror from a vdev such that the detached mirror turns into an imported or exported pool. > 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. I think Jeremy must mean detach a mirror and treat the detached device as new pool. Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
