Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on-disk DDT block arrangement

2010-04-06 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 01:52:23AM +1000, taemun wrote: > I was wondering if someone could explain why the DDT is seemingly > (from empirical observation) kept in a huge number of individual blocks, > randomly written across the pool, rather than just a large binary chunk > somewhere. It's not rea

[zfs-discuss] ZFS on-disk DDT block arrangement

2010-04-06 Thread taemun
I was wondering if someone could explain why the DDT is seemingly (from empirical observation) kept in a huge number of individual blocks, randomly written across the pool, rather than just a large binary chunk somewhere. Having been victim of the relly long times it takes to destroy a dataset