On Oct 16, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Jesus Cea wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 16/10/11 18:49, Jesus Cea wrote: >>> These are special on disk blocks for storing file system metadata >>> attributes when there isn't enough space in the bonus buffer >>> area of the on disk version of the dnode. > > Last question... > > Can somebody confirm that with this change filesystem "symbolic links" > got their own objects and are replicated as dataset "copies" attribute > indicates?. > > If I remember correctly, the initial ditto blocks implementation > doesn't replicate symbolic links. Is that solved? (not retroactively, > of course).
Symlinks are metadata. Metadata has had default copies=2 or 3 for a very long time. -- richard -- ZFS and performance consulting http://www.RichardElling.com VMworld Copenhagen, October 17-20 OpenStorage Summit, San Jose, CA, October 24-27 LISA '11, Boston, MA, December 4-9 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
