ZFS pool restructuring and emergency repair

[Borja Marcos]

On Jun 20, 2015, at 7:21 AM, Adam McDougall wrote:

> The manpage for zfs says: (under zfs send)
> 
> -R      Generate a replication stream package, which will replicate
>        the specified filesystem, and all descendent file systems, up
>        to the named snapshot. When received, all properties, snap‐
>        shots, descendent file systems, and clones are preserved.

And that includes compression. However, the send format was committed before
snapshot holds were introduced. 

If you rely on holds to avoid accidental snapshot deletion, remember that holds
will not be replicated.





Borja.