On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:11:38AM -0800, Matt Newcombe wrote:
> Creating an empty zpool & zfs
> Creating a 6MB text file
> Taking a snapshot
> 
> So far so good. The filesystem size is 6MB and the snapshot 0MB
> 
> Now I edit the first 4 characters of the text file. I would have
> expected the size of the snapshot to have grown by the size of the
> changed *blocks* but when I do a 'zfs list' the filesystem is now
> reported as being around 12MB total with the snapshot around 6MB.

How did you edit the file?  Are you sure that the editor didn't just
create a temporary file and rename it (thus updating every block)?

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