Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:24:28 +0300 From: "Zeus Panchenko" <zeus@ibs.dn.ua> To: "Matt Churchyard" <matt.home@userve.net> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is the "correct" way to "replicate" mem stick with ZFS on it? Message-ID: <20130816172428.79629@relay.ibs.dn.ua> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:56:26 %2B0100 <82fb7b70d47ad58db2b2f0b803bf5160@users.userve.net> References: <82fb7b70d47ad58db2b2f0b803bf5160@users.userve.net>
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Matt Churchyard <matt.home@userve.net> wrote: > I personally would be wary of completely cloning the filesystem due to > it having completely identical GUID's etc. I'm not sure how the system > will behave when given two disks with identical pools. I was unable to create pool with the name of the one imported > You may be OK if you don't import the pools and there's no chance of > two of the mem sticks being in the same machine again. do you mean 1. on the mem stick A to export the pool ( the one to be clonned) 2. to create pool with the same name on the mem stick B 3. clone fs from pool on A to the pool on B is it possible on exported pools? > You could attach the new device as a mirror, then use the 'zfs split' > command to split the second mem stick off into a new pool. This will > require the new pool to have a unique name though, as with the ZFS > send/recv option. Personally I would prefer one of these options, and > to then use 'zpool import new-pool-name required-pool-name' to import > the pool with the correct name when beginning to use it. and this requires to remember the name of the new zfs-splitted pool, am I correct? -- Zeus V. Panchenko jid:zeus@im.ibs.dn.ua IT Dpt., I.B.S. LLC GMT+2 (EET)
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