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...ovement from one FS to another within the same pool would be almost instantaneous. Why does it take to platter for such a movement? # time cp /tmp/blockfile /pcshare/1gb-tempfile real 0m5.758s # time mv /pcshare/1gb-tempfile . real 0m4.501s Both FSs are with compression=off. /tmp is RAM. -devsk -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

I have many core files stuck in snapshots eating up gigs of my disk space. Most of these are BE''s which I don''t really want to delete right now. Is there a way to get rid of them? I know snapshots are RO but can I do some magic with clones and reclaim my space? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

I had created a virtualbox VM to test out opensolaris. I updated to latest dev build and set my things up. Tested pools and various configs/commands. Learnt format/partition etc. And then, I wanted to move this stuff to a solaris partition on the physical disk. VB provides physical disk access. I put my solaris partition in there and created slices for root, swap etc. in that partition inside the

$ zfs list -t filesystem NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT datapool 840M 25.5G 21K /datapool datapool/virtualbox 839M 25.5G 839M /virtualbox mypool 8.83G 6.92G 82K /mypool mypool/ROOT 5.48G 6.92G 21K legacy mypool/ROOT/May25-2010-Image-Update