Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Deferred Frees

2008-06-30 Thread Jeff Bonwick
When a block is freed as part of transaction group N, it can be reused in transaction group N+1. There's at most a one-txg (few-second) delay. Jeff On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:02:53PM -0400, Torrey McMahon wrote: > I'm doing some simple testing of ZFS block reuse and was wondering when > deferre

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Deferred Frees

2008-06-16 Thread Torrey McMahon
I'm doing some simple testing of ZFS block reuse and was wondering when deferred frees kick in. Is it on some sort of timer to ensure data consistency? Does an other routine call it? Would something as simple as sync(1M) get the free block list written out so future allocations could use the sp