On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 18:13 -0700, Adam Leventhal wrote: > [dedupditto] allows the administrator to select a threshhold after > which 2 copies of a block are stored rather than 1. For example, if > many duplicate blocks exist deduplication would reduce that count to > just 1; at some threshhold, it becomes desirable to have multiple > copies to guard against the multiplied effects of the loss of a single > block. The default value is '100'.
What's the interaction between the zfs "copies" property and "dedupditto" ? (my hope would be that if any filesystem referencing a block has copies=2 or copies=3 at the time the reference is created, that block will be dittoed the appropriate number of times if it wasn't already). - Bill