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Date:      Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:39:10 -0800
From:      Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To:        John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dump, restore and zfs 
Message-ID:  <20080302073910.627455B58@mail.bitblocks.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:56:43 PST." <47CA419B.9000005@cloudview.com> 

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On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:56:43 PST John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com>  wrote:
> Does anybody know if it's possible to restore a dump of a ufs filesystem 
> to zfs?

Yes. restore doesn't need any internals knowledge of the
target filesystem; it writes files, directories & special
devices normally so it will work on zfs, ext2fs etc. Modulo
features not supported on the target fileystem (such as
flags on zfs).


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