[zfs-discuss] Question about ZFS Incremental Send/Receive

2009-04-28 Thread Patrick Pinchera
I'm using ZFS snapshots and send and receive for a proof of concept, and I'd like to better understand how the incremental feature works. Consider this example: 1. create a tar file using tar -cvf of 10 image files 2. ZFS snapshot the filesystem that contains this tar file 3. Use ZFS send

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and Caching - write() syscall with O_SYNC

2008-07-07 Thread Patrick Pinchera
IHAC using ZFS in production, and he's opening up some files with the O_SYNC flag. This affects subsequent write()'s by providing synchronized I/O file integrity completion. That is, each write(2) will wait for both the file data and file status to be physically updated. Because of this, he's