Re: I am sick and tired of the poor quality of documentation on FreeBSD

> Rather than hope I will do an export/import dance of a backup drive with 
> the flag, I prefer to use -x or -o to change properties to a different 
> state while they are on the backup drive before they have a chance to 
> take effect.

I hadn't caught up with using -x and -o when receiving.

That said, are these settings persistent on receiving new streams produced by -R?  Because if they are not, they don't provide any additional foot-shooting protection, since you have to remember to use -o at each receive.

> This also works nice to set different compression settings, 

Just for the record, this works only if you don't send compressed blocks in streams (triggered by using -c with 'zfs send').

> decide if atime should be enabled or not, and even put the backup into a 
> read only state automatically. Keeping settings like refreservation from 
> being overridden just because a backup seems important instead of just 
> an afterthought since the two disks are likely different sizes with 
> different needs. These 'overrides' are noted so that zfs inherit -S can 
> get you back on track if wanting to start using the data in place with 
> original properties or -b for when data gets sent the other way.

Seems very nice.  Thanks for making me aware of these "novelties".

Regards.

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Olivier Certner