HL>> And to clear things - meta data are updated also in a spirit of COW - HL>> so metadata are written to new locations and then uber block is HL>> atomically updated pointing to new meta data
Victor Latushkin wrote:
Well, to add to this, uber-blocks are also updated in COW fashion - there is a circular array of 128 uber-blocks, and new uber-block is written to the next to current slot.
Correct, I left it out because there's more detail involved with the uberblock. We can deal with it when we get there. Cheers, Henk _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss