> On Nov 4, 2016, at 11:19 AM, Ben RUBSON <ben.rub...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 04 Nov 2016, at 19:13, Richard Elling <richard.ell...@richardelling.com 
>> <mailto:richard.ell...@richardelling.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 4, 2016, at 11:11 AM, MrRakeshsank . <rksh.s...@gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:rksh.s...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> any one has any ideas on it? Thanks!
>> 
>> Why would you want a "logical size" quota as opposed to the currently 
>> implemented
>> "allocation size" quota?
> 
> I admit I would be interested in this feature too : a user needs 10GB,
> you give him 10GB through a "logical" quota,
> and as a storage admin you enable compression to better handle your storage,
> being able to address more users, then reducing costs.
> Interesting :)

indeed :-)

But while this simple example might work for a compression-only environment, 
its core
concepts are utterly destroyed snapshots, clones, and dedup are used.

A better idea is to bill for logical size, constrain with allocation size.
 — richard




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