Joerg Schilling wrote: > The best documented one is the inverted meta data tree that allows wofs to > write > only one new generation node for one modified file while ZFS needs to also > write new > nodes for all directories above the file including the root directory in the > fs.
I believe you are thinking of indirect blocks, which are unrelated to the directory tree. In ZFS and most other filesystems, ancestor directories need not be modified when a file in a directory is modified. --matt _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
