On Jul 4, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Wout Mertens wrote: >> A data structure view of ZFS is now available: >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/structures/ >> >> We've only got one picture up right now (though its a juicy one!), >> but let us know what you're interested in seeing, and >> we'll try to make that happen. > > Well it's a nice picture, thanks! (could you also make a .svg > version available?)
Say, you're the second person to request that. I used OmniGraffle which is a really nice tool for creating these pictures, but it doesn't support SVG. Hopefully they will add support, or i may have to switch to openoffice. > > As a zfs-code-illiterate interested bystander, it would be nice if > the various objects were annotated with short descriptions of their > intent. The same goes for the pointers to objects in other layers, > what is the pointer keeping track of, what kind of information > passes between the layers. Yeah, some of this requires you to understand some of the code (or at least reference it). > > I'd also love to see what happens on the block level when you take > a snapshot. What objects end up pointing to the same things etc. > > And if you could make it into a 3d zooming movie with change-by- > change animations that'd be awesome! ;-) > > But this is certainly a lot easier to grok than the linear > descriptions in the on-disk format guide. Thanks! you're welcome. eric _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
