Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 02:50:37 +0530 From: Ira Cooper <ira@wakeful.net> To: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quickly emptying a ZFS Message-ID: <CAAPGDw%2BBULRtOoqTbn-89n5bR_uG2r0mWS=Ew2=Yihjqb1ouHQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140321211020.GB1859@schweikhardt.net> References: <20140321211020.GB1859@schweikhardt.net>
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Personally, I'd just create an extra subvolume if I did that... tank/prop/real_vol Put all the properties you want in prop and have real_vol inherit them. (Change names to suit taste.) Destroy/recreate real_vol... -Ira On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Jens Schweikhardt < schweikh@schweikhardt.net> wrote: > 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 > -- > Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/ > SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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