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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 22:10:20 +0100
From: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>
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Subject: Quickly emptying a ZFS
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hello, world\n

If I need to quickly delete all files on a file system, with UFS I can
simply use newfs. Is there something equivalent for ZFS that is neither
of

  * cd mount-point; rm -rf * (not really quick, needs messing with chflags)
  * zfs destroy dataset; zfs create dataset (loses all properties set)

I.e. the task is to quickly nuke all files without losing the dataset
properties. Is there maybe a way to save and restore the properties?


Regards,

	Jens
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