On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Erik Trimble wrote:
>
> One note here for ZFS users:
>
> On ZFS (or any other COW filesystem), rsync unfortunately does NOT do the
> "Right Thing" when syncing an existing file. From ZFS's standpoint, the most
> efficient way would be merely to rewrite the changed blocks, thus allowing
> COW and snapshots to make a fully efficient storage of the changed file.
Bummer. In that case, someone should file a bug in rsync's bug tracker
(same one as used by Samba) to offer a better ("direct overwrite")
mode for ZFS.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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