update on this:
i think i have been caught by a rsync trap.
it seems, using rsync locally (i.e. rsync --inplace localsource
localdestination) and "remotely" (i.e. rsync --inplace localsource
localhost:/localdestination) is something different and rsync seems to handle
the writing very differen
whoops - i see i have posted the same several times.
this was duo to i got an error message when posting and thought, it didn`t get
trough
could some moderator probably delete those double posts ?
meanwhile, i did some tests and have very weird results.
first off, i tried "--inplace" to updat
>So, in your case, you get maximum
>space efficiency, where only the new blocks are stored, and the old
>blocks simply are referenced.
so - i assume that whenever some block is read from file A and written
unchanged to file B, zfs recognizes this and just creates a new reference to
file A ?
tha