Jeff Bonwick writes: > > Are you saying that copy-on-write doesn't apply for mmap changes, but > > only file re-writes? I don't think that gels with anything else I > > know about ZFS. > > No, you're correct -- everything is copy-on-write. >
Maybe the confusion comes from: mmap changes : application interaction with memory COW : memory(ZFS) interaction with storage There is an fsync() or fsflush deamon in between. -r > Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss