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authorMatthew Ahrens <[email protected]>2012-12-23 15:57:14 -0800
committerBrian Behlendorf <[email protected]>2013-01-08 10:35:43 -0800
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Illumos #3104: eliminate empty bpobjs
3104 eliminate empty bpobjs Reviewed by: George Wilson <[email protected]> Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <[email protected]> Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <[email protected]> Reviewed by: Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> Approved by: Eric Schrock <[email protected]> References: illumos/illumos-gate@f17457368189aa911f774c38c1f21875a568bdca illumos changeset: 13782:8f78aae28a63 https://www.illumos.org/issues/3104 Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
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@@ -169,5 +169,33 @@ through the \fBfreeing\fR property.
This feature is only \fBactive\fR while \fBfreeing\fR is non\-zero.
.RE
+
+.sp
+.ne 2
+.na
+\fB\fBempty_bpobj\fR\fR
+.ad
+.RS 4n
+.TS
+l l .
+GUID com.delphix:empty_bpobj
+READ\-ONLY COMPATIBLE yes
+DEPENDENCIES none
+.TE
+
+This feature increases the performance of creating and using a large
+number of snapshots of a single filesystem or volume, and also reduces
+the disk space required.
+
+When there are many snapshots, each snapshot uses many Block Pointer
+Objects (bpobj's) to track blocks associated with that snapshot.
+However, in common use cases, most of these bpobj's are empty. This
+feature allows us to create each bpobj on-demand, thus eliminating the
+empty bpobjs.
+
+This feature is \fBactive\fR while there are any filesystems, volumes,
+or snapshots which were created after enabling this feature.
+.RE
+
.SH "SEE ALSO"
\fBzpool\fR(1M)