`<div>That is unfortunate. </div><div><br></div><div>The requirement stems from the need to perform an incremental backup to cloud storage (backblaze). </div><div><br></div><div>Many of my files are large and sparse (VMs). Unfortunately the only software that I have found to perform the backups runs on BSD or Linux hence the use for NFS. </div><div><br></div><div>Running the utility over NFS without sparse support is not ideal. </div><div><br></div><div>If anyone has any recommendations for an incremental cloud storage solution that is compatible with OmniOS it would be greatly appreciated. I realize that ZFS send works quite well but haven't found an off site provider who I consider to be cost effective. </div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:01 PM Dan McDonald <<a href="mailto:danmcd@omniti.com">danmcd@omniti.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="gmail_msg"><br>> On Jan 4, 2017, at 1:19 PM, Mini Trader <<a href="mailto:miniflowtrader@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">miniflowtrader@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><br>><br class="gmail_msg"><br>> Hello all,<br class="gmail_msg"><br>><br class="gmail_msg"><br>> Is there any support for NFS 4.2 in Illumos? I am interested in the Sparse File functionality that has been introduced.<br class="gmail_msg"><br><br class="gmail_msg"><br>There is not, currently.<br class="gmail_msg"><br><br class="gmail_msg"><br>There have been some stop/starts on this, but at the end of the day, at least one illumos shop's customers basically didn't care enough to make it a priority for that shop. The other illumos shops either have similar customer viewpoints, don't care about NFS at all, or don't have the resources to devote to such a nontrivial project.<br class="gmail_msg"><br><br class="gmail_msg"><br>I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for you at the moment.<br class="gmail_msg"><br><br class="gmail_msg"><br>Dan<br class="gmail_msg"><br><br class="gmail_msg"><br></blockquote></div></div>
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