From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 25 19:08:49 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2EA1A2D1 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:08:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x22e.google.com (mail-ig0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F323B1CE3 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:08:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f174.google.com with SMTP id y6so8149243igj.1 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:08:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=HbGIe811BYdaGDY7ni0hz5HagdYv/gJj7i7yd3apVsk=; b=KggK57otKHlYEECGj0znsqtPoSoDVkNJI4tMJzQTgYFQJEShx+j7i7hRweI3AJxFMN wp3QoRXfncH+9aCsRwB7+unFbp7NI6FtdeaqT7JPbFl+m0uelxFS+0xnKxhdTXJIwgB1 qyL3qxCpDkLMgkfSrnce+wfFuFrXtjcliPvtmaEDaB3WeIsmRRif7bTM/HOEYOiYhP+C 38TJ+b6ZvueniXH/MviNZMnLYc6G2FiBmiUJfM9WL27I/J1Ehgj8EvANxcYsmP1NQCbD 5mYdkXZPRtxEDQZbczRBOh9iTIY3Jny0Hj1cGQFdvCmdGze/lWeoC8Q+nzx6xmQ8V9X3 oPqg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.28.116 with SMTP id a20mr5270395igh.5.1393355328423; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:08:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.43.157.66 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:08:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:08:48 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Determine if two ZFS snapshots on different machines are identical From: Chris Stankevitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:08:49 -0000 Hello, Is there a way to test whether or not two snapshots on different machines are identical? For example, git uses a single hash to represent the state of the entire tree at any point in time. You can compare the commit has on two independent machines to determine if the contents of the repository are identical. Thank you! CHris