>Quoth Darren Dunham on Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:50:33PM -0700: >> But a traditional filesystem isn't going to write anything without a >> request. ZFS is constantly updating the pool/uberblock status the way >> things currently work. So even if you choose to defer the atime update >> until much longer, it won't prevent writes from being scheduled anyway. > >Why does ZFS update the uberblock when there are no writes?
It doesn't. I have a ZFS filesystem on an IDE disk which has an idle timer set; when there's no ZFS I/O there's also no disk I/O and the disk spins down. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
