On 17 Dec 2007, at 11:42, Jeff Bonwick wrote:
In short, yes. The enabling technology for all of this is something
we call bp rewrite -- that is, the ability to rewrite an existing
block pointer (bp) to a new location. Since ZFS is COW, this would
be trivial in the absence of snapshots --
Hey folks,
Does anybody know if any of these are on the roadmap for ZFS, or have any idea
how long it's likely to be before we see them (we're in no rush - late 2008
would be fine with us, but it would be nice to know they're being worked on)?
I've seen many people ask for the ability to
In short, yes. The enabling technology for all of this is something
we call bp rewrite -- that is, the ability to rewrite an existing
block pointer (bp) to a new location. Since ZFS is COW, this would
be trivial in the absence of snapshots -- just touch all the data.
But because a block may
Hello Jeff,
Monday, December 17, 2007, 10:42:18 AM, you wrote:
JB In short, yes. The enabling technology for all of this is something
JB we call bp rewrite -- that is, the ability to rewrite an existing
JB block pointer (bp) to a new location. Since ZFS is COW, this would
JB be trivial in the
