Harry Putnam writes: > >> So should I create the zfs fs by > >> zfs create ... -o mountpoint=/usr/local p0/local > >> zfs create ... p0/local/src > >> zfs create ... p0/local/src/git > >> > >> (the -p option may be useful above.. I just want it > >> to be clear what is being done) > >> > >> ending with /usr/local/src/git > >> > >> OR like this: > >> > >> zfs create ... -o mountpoint=/usr/local p0/local > >> zfs create ... -o mountpoint=/usr/local/src p0/src > >> zfs create ... -o mountpoint=/usr/local/src/git p0/git > > > > Certainly the former. If you use the second version, all three moint- > > points will be "local". In the first version, the second (src) and > > third mountpoints will be "inherited". > > > > So if you one day decide that you have seen the light and want to con- > > vert to The One True local Mountpoint as Our Lord Intended It, you can > > just change the first mount point to /opt/local, and the rest will > > automatically inherit the new setting. > > Thanks for your thoughts. > > Sounds like the inherited mount point rates pretty high in your notion > of what works best. > > I suspect you have other reasons as well, and I would like to hear > about them if you don't mind expounding a bit more. > > For example: > What baring[sp] would either way have on the ability to `send/receive'? > > I'm very inexperienced in send/receive: > > In the method you prefer, and the first on shown in OP, can $USER > `send/receive' the whole of `local/src/git' in one move? Or would it > need to be broken down into three send/receive sessions?
Both will work. Any dataset snapshot can be sent/received separately, if you want. But you can also use a recursive send where the dataset itself and all "child datasets" will be included in the stream. Check out the "-r" and "-R" flags in the zfs(1M) man page. Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Solaris-based Systems Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim, GERMANY Email: [email protected] Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 46 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J.H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt "When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead" _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
