On 03 February, 2009 - SQA sent me these 0,8K bytes: > Mattias, > > Sorry for the bad cut-and-paste in my previous post. It indeed is 3 blocks, > not 1. > > I did what you said but the ZFS system added 2 extra blocks, not 1. > The file was 608 bytes in size, which should be 2 blocks. With the > metadata info, it should have used up 3 blocks, not 4. It's adding 4 > though.
My guess is that as you have a 5 disk raidz1, which has 4 "data disks". Raidz only does whole-stripe writes, so minimum is covering a whole stripe which in your case is 4 blocks. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
