zfs discuss - Aug 2006 - Difficult to recursive-move ZFS filesystems to another server

Just wanted to point this out -- 

I have a large web tree that used to have UFS user quotas on it.  I converted to
ZFS using
the model that each user has their own ZFS filesystem quota instead.  I worked
around some
NFS/automounter issues, and it now seems to be working fine. 

Except now I have to move it to another server.   The problem is that there
doesn''t appear
to be any recursive dump/restore command that lets me do this easily. 
''zfs send'' and ''zfs receive''
only appear to work within filesystem boundaries.  

What I want to do is move all of zfspool/www from server A to server B. 

Each user filesystem underneath zfspool/www: 

 zfspool/www/user-joe
 zfspool/www/user-john
 zfspool/www/user-mary 

...has a unique quota assigned to it. 

There doesn''t appear to be a way to move zfspool/www and its decendants
en masse to
a new machine with those quotas intact.  I have to script the recreation of all
of the
descendant filesystems by hand. 

I can move the *data* with tar or rsync easily enough, but it seems silly that I
have to recreate
all the descendant filesystems and their characteristics by hand. 

I know the "comprehensive dump" subject has been brought up before...
I''d like to reiterate a suggestion that it''d be nice if the
various commands (zfs send/receive, zfs snapshot) could optionally include a
filesystem''s descendants.  If zfs send could do this and included the
filesystem quotas, it might solve this issue.

Or maybe I''m missing something?
 
 
This message posted from opensolaris.org

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:02:41AM -0700, Brad Plecs
wrote:
> There doesn''t appear to be a way to move zfspool/www and its
> decendants en masse to a new machine with those quotas intact.  I have
> to script the recreation of all of the descendant filesystems by hand. 
Yep, you need

6421959 want zfs send to preserve properties (''zfs send -p'')
6421958 want recursive zfs send (''zfs send -r'')

--matt