On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:03:07PM -0700, Neil Perrin wrote: > A write made through the ZPL (zfs_write()) will be broken into transactions > that contain at most 128KB user data. So a large write could well be split > across transaction groups, and thus committed separately.
That answers my exact question; thanks! And Richard, thanks, too. Sorry that my question wasn't stated clearly enough to avoid causing confusion about whether I asked about the timing of durability vs. the atomicity of writes with respect to failures. -- Chris Frost http://www.frostnet.net/chris/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss