Its all done on write, so if you update the file it will have multiple copies again
This explains it quite well http://blogs.sun.com/relling/entry/zfs_copies_and_data_protection -----Original Message----- From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl] Sent: 01 June 2009 10:05 To: krad Cc: 'Mike Meyer'; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; xorquew...@googlemail.com Subject: RE: Request for opinions - gvinum or ccd? > You shouldn't need to alter the copies attribute to recover from disk > failures as the normal raid should take care of that. What the copies is I don't think we understand each other. I say that when i want 2 copies, ZFS should rebuild second copy if it's gone and i run resilver. it does not, what doesn't make sense for me. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
