dump, restore and zfs

[Bakul Shah]

On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:56:43 PST John Pettitt <jpp at 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).