Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:02:36 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: zfs dump to non-zfs host Message-ID: <4855755C.6010201@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4855615E.6070603@psg.com> References: <48532183.2040306@psg.com> <48555878.9070301@FreeBSD.org> <4855615E.6070603@psg.com>
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Randy Bush wrote: >>> 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. You'll have to take this up with the ZFS developers. Kris
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