On Jan 2, 2008 11:46 AM, Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ... > > That's a sad situation for backup utilities, by the way - a backup > > tool would have no way of finding out that file X on fs A already > > existed as file Z on fs B. So what ? If the file got copied, byte by > > byte, the same situation exists, the contents are identical. I don't > > think just because this makes backups slower than they could be if the > > backup utility were omniscient, that makes a reason to slow file > > copy/rename operations down. > > I don't see this as being a problem at all. > > This idea is aimed at being a filesystem performance optimisation, > not a backup optimisation.
Anyway, the same "problem" already exists with cloned filesystems. -- Just me, Wire ... Blog: <prstat.blogspot.com> _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
