On Jan 31, 2010, at 6:55 AM, Tony MacDoodle wrote:

> Has anyone encountered any file corruption when snapping ZFS file systems?

I've had no problems. My first snapshot was in June 2006 and I've been regularly
snapshotting since then.

> How does ZFS handle open files when compared to other file system types that
> use similar technology ie. Veritas, etc...??

VxFS is not at all similar.  ZFS is a copy-on-write file system, so a snapshot
merely changes the free side of the alloc/free process.
 -- richard

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