On 2010-01-28 at 00:30 +0100 Ragnar Sundblad sent off:
> > Are there any plans to add unwritten extent support into ZFS or any reason
> > why
> > not?
>
> I have no idea, but just out of curiosity - when do you want that?
when you have many data streams being simultaneous written to disk over a
On 2010-01-27 at 09:50 + Darren J Moffat sent off:
> The whole point of the original question wasn't about consumers of
> ZFS but where ZFS is the consumer of block storage provided by
> something else that expects to see "zeros" on disk.
>
> This thread is about "thin" provisioning *to* ZFS n
On 2010-01-25 at 08:31 -0600 Mike Gerdts sent off:
> You are missing the point. Compression and dedup will make it so that
> the blocks in the devices are not overwritten with zeroes. The goal
> is to overwrite the blocks so that a back-end storage device or
> back-end virtualization platform can
