On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Jim Klimov <jimkli...@cos.ru> wrote:
> While reading about zfs on-disk formats, I wondered once again > why is it not possible to create a snapshot on existing data, > not of the current TXG but of some older point-in-time? > It is not possible because the older data may no longer exist on-disk. For example, you want to take a snapshot from 10 txg's ago. But since then we have created a new file, which modified the containing directory. So we freed the directory block from 10 txg's ago. That freed block is then a candidate for reallocation. Existence of old uberblocks in the ring buffer does not indicate that the data they reference is still valid. This is the reason that "zpool import -F" does not always work. --matt
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