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Date:      Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:37:18 +0900
From:      Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: zfs dump to non-zfs host
Message-ID:  <4855615E.6070603@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <48555878.9070301@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <48532183.2040306@psg.com> <48555878.9070301@FreeBSD.org>

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>> files created with zsend might not be decodable in a future version, so
>> i can not zsend | to it.
> If this is the case then presumably there will be a migration tool.  zfs
> sending to a file is the officially recommended method.

that would be alright.  but the man page is pretty direct, brutal, and
negative;

>        The  format  of  the  stream is evolving. No backwards compatibility is
>        guaranteed. You may not be able to receive your streams on future  ver-
>        sions of ZFS.

this is not very reassuring.

randy



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