From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 15 20:02:36 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 70AD01065676 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:02:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B16BD8FC1A; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:02:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <4855755C.6010201@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:02:36 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Bush References: <48532183.2040306@psg.com> <48555878.9070301@FreeBSD.org> <4855615E.6070603@psg.com> In-Reply-To: <4855615E.6070603@psg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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 20:02:36 -0000 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