| Summary: | man page zfs(8) confusing for sending a filesystem | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | joost |
| Component: | Manual Pages | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | New --- | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | doc |
| Priority: | --- | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
The man page states: === zfs send [-eL] [-i snapshot|bookmark] filesystem|volume|snapshot Generate a send stream, which may be of a filesystem, and may be incremental from a bookmark. If the destination is a filesystem or volume, the pool must be read-only, or the filesystem must not be mounted. When the stream generated from a filesystem or volume is received, the default snapshot name will be (--head--). === I believe the destination is always stdout and never a filesystem or volume. However the source can be a filesystem or a volume and I think it makes sense modifications should not be possible while sending. IMO the text would be better understood (at least by me) if "destination" is replaced with "source".