-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/19/2010 01:37 AM, Rodney Lindner wrote: > Hi all, > I was wondering, when blocks are freed as part COW process are the old blocks > put on the top or bottom of the freeblock list? > > The question came about looking a thin provisioning using zfs on top of > dynamically expanding disk images (VDI). If the free blocks are put at the end > free block list, over time the VDI will grow to its maximum size before it > reuses any of the blocks.
Check the thread "Thin device support in ZFS?", from late december. - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ j...@jcea.es - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:j...@jabber.org _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ . _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQCVAwUBS1Wo/plgi5GaxT1NAQKTrwP7ByYbXKDtZqMosqwj2zu34rx0ja/cQ9aw AM2Ui6feTYNYxCrPqvHyFgybqdy0GY0iRJvSIbJI3qu/huG3LOVBz4GpEx0zffWn 0baAH9u1KqHMSOMTa1b64hgPIu7Eby09V2LKcV0I0/CKyys0qbp1Yothbm0LW5io ehtVN9xTxwk= =+tt0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
