Re: [zfs-discuss] COW question

2011-05-10 Thread Francois Marcoux
przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 11:59:29AM +0800, Raymond Xiong wrote: It doesn't. Page 11 of the following slides illustrates how COW works in ZFS: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfs_last.pdf Blocks containing active data are never overwritten in

Re: [zfs-discuss] COW question

2006-07-12 Thread Chad Lewis
It uses extra space in the middle of the write, in order to hold the new data, but once the write is complete, the space occupied by the old version is now free for use. ckl On Jul 12, 2006, at 8:05 PM, Robert Chen wrote: I still could not understand why Copy on Write does not waste file

Re: [zfs-discuss] COW question

2006-07-07 Thread przemolicc
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 11:59:29AM +0800, Raymond Xiong wrote: It doesn't. Page 11 of the following slides illustrates how COW works in ZFS: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfs_last.pdf Blocks containing active data are never overwritten in place; instead, a new block is

Re: [zfs-discuss] COW question

2006-07-07 Thread Francois Marcoux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 11:59:29AM +0800, Raymond Xiong wrote: It doesn't. Page 11 of the following slides illustrates how COW works in ZFS: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfs_last.pdf Blocks containing active data are never overwritten in