On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, Jim Klimov wrote:
During this quick test I did not manage to craft a test which would inflate a file in the middle without touching its other blocks (other than using a text editor which saves the whole file - so that is irrelevant), in order to see if ZFS can "insert" smaller blocks in the middle of an existing file, and whether it would reallocate other blocks to fit the set recordsizes.
The POSIX filesystem interface does not support such a thing ('insert'). Presumably the underlying zfs pool could support such a thing if there was a layer on top to request it. The closest equivalent in a POSIX filesystem would be if a previously-null block in a sparse file is updated to hold content.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
