A nit on the nit... cat does not use mmap for files <= 32K in size. For those files it's a simple read() into a buffer and write() it out.
Jim --- Chris Gerhard wrote: > A slight nit. > > Using cat(1) to read the file to /dev/null will not actually cause the data > to be read thanks to the magic that is mmap(). If you use dd(1) to read the > file then yes you will either get the data and thus know it's blocks match > their checksums or dd will give you an error if you have no redundancy. > > --chris > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
