Hello Jeff, Monday, December 17, 2007, 10:42:18 AM, you wrote:
JB> In short, yes. The enabling technology for all of this is something JB> we call bp rewrite -- that is, the ability to rewrite an existing JB> block pointer (bp) to a new location. Since ZFS is COW, this would JB> be trivial in the absence of snapshots -- just touch all the data. JB> But because a block may appear in many snapshots, there's more to it. JB> It's not impossible, just a bit tricky... and we're working on it. JB> Once we have bp rewrite, many cool features will become available as JB> trivial applications of it: on-line defrag, restripe, recompress, etc. Cool. Do you have some estimates on time frames? Last time it was said to be late this year... -- Best regards, Robert Milkowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
