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by spamfritter
24 Oct 2016, 13:28
Forum: Help
Topic: Fail-Safe File Copy on ZFS shares
Replies: 2
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Re: Fail-Safe File Copy on ZFS shares

Thanks for the reply Zenju,

I think that's exactly what ZFS does on the filesystem basis. The initial copy is made to ZIL (a kind of write cache held in RAM). Once that copy is successfully made then the file is written across the zpool (in this case 3 disks in a RAIDZ1 (similar to RAID 5 ...
by spamfritter
18 Oct 2016, 17:38
Forum: Help
Topic: Fail-Safe File Copy on ZFS shares
Replies: 2
Views: 1296

Fail-Safe File Copy on ZFS shares

Hi,

I'm on the latest FFS (8.5) on macOS 10.12. I use FFS for syncing specific folders to an ZFS share (over AFP or NFS protocols) to a NAS server running FreeNAS 9.10.

My question is around the Fail-Safe File Copy option.

My understanding is that ZFS has a form of 'fail-safe file copy' built-in ...