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If there were a ?zfs send? datastream saved someplace, is there a way to verify the integrity of that datastream without doing a ?zfs receive? and occupying all that disk space? I am aware that ?zfs send? is not a backup solution, due to vulnerability of even a single bit error, and lack of granularity, and other reasons. However ... There is an attraction to ?zfs send? as an augmentation to the

Hi, I have a question, let''s say I have a zvol named vol1 which is a clone of a snapshot of another zvol (its origin property is tank/myvol at mysnap). If I send this zvol to a different zpool through a zfs send does it send the origin too that is, does an automatic promotion happen or do I end up whith a broken zvol? Best regards. Maurilio. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Hi, I just installed a CentOS 6.5 System with the intention of using thinly provisioned snapshots. I created the volume group, a thinpool and then a logical volume. All of that works fine but when I create a snapshot "mysnap" then the snapshot volume gets displayed in the "lvs" output with the correct information but apparently no device nodes are created under /dev/mapper/ or /dev/(volumge_group_name). Any ideas what might be going on here? Regards, Dennis

Let''s suppose you rename a file or directory. /tank/widgets/a/rel2049_773.13-4/somefile.txt Becomes /tank/widgets/b/foogoo_release_1.9/README Let''s suppose you are now working on widget B, and you want to look at the past zfs snapshot of README, but you don''t remember where it came from. That is, you don''t know the previous name or location where that