From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 22 10:58:41 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 55BDC2EF; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 10:58:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4152D13AB; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 10:58:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id rBMAwfJi007176; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 10:58:41 GMT (envelope-from rodrigc@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id rBMAwflK007175; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 10:58:41 GMT (envelope-from rodrigc@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201312221058.rBMAwflK007175@svn.freebsd.org> From: Craig Rodrigues Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 10:58:41 +0000 (UTC) To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r259715 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes X-SVN-Group: head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 10:58:41 -0000 Author: rodrigc Date: Sun Dec 22 10:58:40 2013 New Revision: 259715 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/259715 Log: Mention ZFS zio nop-write improvement. Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml ============================================================================== --- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Sun Dec 22 10:52:51 2013 (r259714) +++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml Sun Dec 22 10:58:40 2013 (r259715) @@ -342,6 +342,14 @@ Support for L2ARC compression has been added to ZFS. + The zio nop-write improvement from Illumos + was imported into &os;. To reduce I/O, nop-write skips overwriting + data if the checksum (cryptographically secure) of new data + matches the checksum of existing data. It also saves space if + snapshots are in use. This improvement only works only on + datasets with enabled compression, disabled deduplication and + sha256 checksums. + ZFS will now compare the checksums of incoming writes to the checksum of the existing on-disk data and avoid issuing any write I/O for data that has not changed. This will reduce I/O