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2007 Oct 08
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safe zfs-level snapshots with a UFS-on-ZVOL filesystem?
...;t much worse than straight ZFS (it gets much faster with compression enabled, but that''s another story). The only fly in the ointment is that ZVOL level snapshots don''t capture unsynced data up at the FS level. There''s a workaround at: http://blogs.sun.com/pgdh/entry/taking_ufs_new_places_safely but I wondered if there was anything else that could be done to avoid having to take such measures? I don''t want to stop writes to get a snap, and I''d really like to avoid UFS snapshots if at all possible. I tried mounting forcedirectio in the (mistaken) belief that this woul...