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2009 Apr 26
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Peculiarities of COW over COW?
We run our IMAP spool on ZFS that''s derived from LUNs on a Netapp
filer. There''s a great deal of churn in e-mail folders, with messages
appearing and being deleted frequently. I know that ZFS uses copy-on-
write, so that blocks in use are never overwritten, and that deleted
blocks are added to a free list. This behavior would spread the free
list all over the zpool. As well,