On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Jim Klimov wrote:
I am not sure if I misunderstood the question or Bob's answer,
but I have a gut feeling it is not fully correct: ZFS block
sizes for files (filesystem datasets) are, at least by default,
dynamically-sized depending on the contiguous write size as
queued by the time a ZFS transaction is closed and flushed to
disk. In case of RAIDZ layouts, this logical block is further
Zfs data block sizes are fixed size! Only tail blocks are shorter.
The underlying representation (how the data block gets stored) depends
on if compression, raidz, deduplication, etc., are used.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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