Krzys wrote: > WHen property value copies is set to value greater than 1 how does it work? > Will > it store second copy of data on different disk? or does it store it on the > same > disk?
This is hard to describe in words, so I put together some pictures. http://blogs.sun.com/relling/entry/zfs_copies_and_data_protection > Also when this setting is changed at some point on file system, will it > make copies of existing data or just new data thats being written from now on? > Changes to such parameters (copies, compression) affect new writes. Previously written data will remain as-is. A new file which is a copy of an old file will be written with the new policy. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
