Good idea, I'll do so (for the openzfs commit).

--matt

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Prakash Surya <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Would it make sense to include this description in the commit message of
> the proposed patch? It looks like we're allowing more detailed commit
> messages in the openzfs repository, so I'd vote to include this explanation
> along with the diff.
>
> Cheers,
> Prakash
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Matthew Ahrens <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/pull/23
>> https://www.illumos.org/issues/6393
>>
>> This allows to do a full (non-incremental send) and receive it as a clone
>> of an existing dataset.  It can leverage nopwrite to share blocks with the
>> origin.  This can be used to change the relationship of datasets on the
>> target.  For example, maybe on the source you have:
>>
>> A ---- B ---- C
>>
>> And you have sent to the target a full of B, and the incremental B->C:
>>
>> B ---- C
>>
>> You later realize that you want to have A on the target.  You will have
>> to do a full send of A, but nopwrite can save you space on the target if
>> you receive it as a clone of B, assuming that A and B have some blocks in
>> common:
>>
>> B ---- C
>>  \
>>   A
>>
>> --matt
>>
>
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