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Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 12:35:59 +0200
From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
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Cc: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: discrepancies in used space after cpio
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On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:21:22AM +0100, Paul Wootton typed:
> >  
> Yes /DemoPool is a raidz pool that is going to replace my single disk 
> pool. Dmitry was right about sparse files
> demophon# pwd
> /var/tmp/kdecache-paul/kpc
> demophon# du -hA .
> 1.2G    .
> demophon# du -h .
> 8.9M    .
> 
> Is there a there a better way instead of using cpio for moving an entire 
> filing system from a single disk zfs pool to a raidz zfs pool?
> Or does making a sparse file in to a none sparse file just consume more 
> disk space and no other side affects

zfs send/recv ?

Ruben