Hello Matthew,
Thursday, March 29, 2007, 2:23:38 AM, you wrote:
MA> Robert Milkowski wrote:
>> Hello zfs-discuss,
>>
>> What will happen if I create a stripe pool of 3 disks, then create
>> somy symlinks and then overwrite one disk with 0s.
>> Ditto blocks should self-heal meta data so file systems will be
>> consistent. Now when it comes to symlinks...
>>
>> I was looking into a ZFS code and it looks like if symlink dst name is
>> less than 56 in size it will be stored in znode bonus buffer so it
>> will be protected by ditto blocks and such symlinks should survive
>> above scenario. However if symlink dst name is longer than 56 bytes it
>> will be stored in a data block so I guess I won't be able to read it,
>> right?
MA> That's correct. See also
MA> 6516171 zpl symlinks should have their own object type
MA> The new object type would be marked as metadata, and thus always be
MA> ditto'ed.
That's really interesting! Is someone currently working on it? Any
time frame? I would be really interested in this feature.
btw: what about corner cases when you have a file systems with 100's
million of symlinks and basically nothing more. If above would be
on by default (and I guess one couldn't switch it off) in such a
case fs will consume 2x space additional to lets say underlaying
mirror - not everyone would be pleased I guess...
??
--
Best regards,
Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://milek.blogspot.com
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