Hello Jacob,

Thursday, January 29, 2009, 5:09:41 PM, you wrote:

JR> zfs undestroy certainly would be a lifesaver for people who have to
JR> learn this the hard way.  Maybe it could be implemented with an
JR> algorithm to the effect of 'keep a pointer somewhere to the old fs
JR> bits and don't touch destroyed blocks until we run out of
JR> unused/virgin blocks, then go ahead and use them up without
JR> hesitation.'  Kind of a free block pool with priority.

I'm not saying it is a bad idea but it would cause data to be less
localized and more fragmented for many workloads...


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 Robert Milkowski                            mailto:mi...@task.gda.pl
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