[patch] zfs sysctl patch

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Thu May 22 18:07:27 UTC 2014


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allan Jude" <allanjude at freebsd.org>

> Did the name of the sysctl vfs.zfs.dirty_data_max_max come from OpenZFS
> or did we pick that?
>
> If it is ours, I would suggest changing it to dirty_data_max_limit
> because '*_max_max' is confusing and a bit misleading.

Yes, the sysctls mirror the names of the ZFs variables they effect, which
are set by different means in other implementations. So it is best we keep
them the same so when users are searching about information for a setting
they get the richest set of results.

    Regards
    Steve


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