I am looking for a comprehensive description of how files are stored
into a ZFS filesytem.

I understand that it's quit different than UFS's inodes and blocks
pointers but i failed to find any comprehensive explaination of the
methode use with ZFS.

All info i got from web was about structures description of ZFS FS but
not about the way files are stored.

Any hints ?

Thanks for your help.

On 19 Jul 2006 08:05:10 -0700 "thulhu" <francois.napoleoni@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking for a comprehensive description of how files are stored
> into a ZFS filesytem.

ZFS is log-structured. I believe.

-frank

Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> writes:

>On 19 Jul 2006 08:05:10 -0700 "thulhu" <francois.napoleoni@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am looking for a comprehensive description of how files are stored
>> into a ZFS filesytem.

>ZFS is log-structured. I believe.

No; while it has a log to give proper "after sync/NFS commit" semantics,
it is not log structures.

There's an ueberblock (or actually 128) and the rest hangs of off that.


Casper
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thulhu <francois.napoleoni@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking for a comprehensive description of how files are stored
> into a ZFS filesytem.

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/

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Daniel