>Op 06-05-11 05:44, Richard Elling schreef: >> As the size of the data grows, the need to have the whole DDT in RAM or L2ARC >> decreases. With one notable exception, destroying a dataset or snapshot >> requires >> the DDT entries for the destroyed blocks to be updated. This is why people >> can >> go for months or years and not see a problem, until they try to destroy a >> dataset. > >So what you are saying is "you with your ram-starved system, don't even >try to start using snapshots on that system". Right?
I think it's more like "don't use dedup when you don't have RAM". (It is not possible to not use snapshots in Solaris; they are used for everything) Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
