I had a 50mb zfs volume that was an iscsi target. This was mounted into a
Windows system (ntfs) and shared on the network. I used notepad.exe on a remote
system to add/remove a few bytes at the end of a 25mb file.
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Just realised I missed a rather important word out there, that could confuse.
So the conclusion I draw from this is that the --incremental-- snapshot simply
contains every written block since the last snapshot regardless of whether the
data in the block has changed or not.
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I took binary dumps of the snapshots taken in between the edits and this showed
that there was actually very little change in the block structure, however the
incremental snapshots were very large. So the conclusion I draw from this is
that the snapshot simply contains every written block since
I am looking to use Opensolaris/ZFS to create an iscsi SAN to provide storage
for a collection of virtual systems and replicate to an offiste device.
While testing the environment I was surprised to see the size of the
incremental snapshots, which I need to send/receive over a WAN connection,
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