Re: [zfs-discuss] copies set to greater than 1

2008-11-06 Thread Richard Elling
Krzys wrote: > WHen property value copies is set to value greater than 1 how does it work? > Will > it store second copy of data on different disk? or does it store it on the > same > disk? This is hard to describe in words, so I put together some pictures. http://blogs.sun.com/relling/entry/

Re: [zfs-discuss] copies set to greater than 1

2008-11-06 Thread Bob Netherton
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 19:54 -0500, Krzys wrote: > WHen property value copies is set to value greater than 1 how does it work? > Will > it store second copy of data on different disk? or does it store it on the > same > disk? Also when this setting is changed at some point on file system, will i

[zfs-discuss] copies set to greater than 1

2008-11-06 Thread Krzys
WHen property value copies is set to value greater than 1 how does it work? Will it store second copy of data on different disk? or does it store it on the same disk? Also when this setting is changed at some point on file system, will it make copies of existing data or just new data thats bein