Quickly emptying a ZFS

[Ira Cooper]

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 at 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
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