On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:13:33PM +0800, Steven Sim wrote:
> Could someone elaborate more on the statement "metadata drives
> reconstruction"...
ZFS starts from the ubberblock and works its way down (think recursive
tree traversal) the metadata to find all live blocks and rebuilds the
replaced v
>I understand the copy-on-write thing. That was very well illustrated in
>"ZFS The Last Word in File Systems" by Jeff Bonwick.
>
>But if every block is it's own RAID-Z stripe, if the block is lost, how
>does ZFS recover the block???
You should perhaps not take "block" literally; the block is w
