From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 15 18:37:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F0D1065670; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:37:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [IPv6:2001:418:1::39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F2D8FC1F; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:37:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from 50.216.138.210.bn.2iij.net ([210.138.216.50] helo=rmac.psg.com) by rip.psg.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1K7x6O-000H7B-Gx; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:37:20 +0000 Message-ID: <4855615E.6070603@psg.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:37:18 +0900 From: Randy Bush User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <48532183.2040306@psg.com> <48555878.9070301@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <48555878.9070301@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: zfs dump to non-zfs host X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:37:21 -0000 >> 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