On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Nicolas Williams wrote: >> >> Maybe "snapshot file whenever a write-filedescriptor is closed" or >> somesuch? > > Again. Not enough. Some apps (many!) deal with multiple files.
Or more significantly, with multiple pages. When using memory mapping the application may close its file descriptor, but then the underlying file is updated in a somewhat random fashion as "dirty pages" are written to disk. It seems that this hypothesis is without merit. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
