-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The are infinite usecases for storage shrinking. A clear example is the "Meta data corruptions on ZFS." thread currently in the list.
The issue is: my pool is full and I can't delete a file because the COW operation can't find enough free space (yes, I know this concrete issue woudl be solved if solaris did some small reservation in the zpool). If we could shrink a zpool, the administrator could simply add a new small vdev (for example, a usb pendrive, or a NFS remote file) to provide some free space to the pool, delete some big files and *THEN* shrink the pool to umount the temporary added spare space. To me, a huge issue is when you try to add a way-2 mirror to a zpool but you add the two disk as separate vdev's by error. The only possible step then is to backup the zpool, destroy it and recreate it again. Not nice... - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argo.es/~jcea/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBRdRZi5lgi5GaxT1NAQJsdgP/TkdZYyhGzbBNb6NeE15/xNKs5WIwCiTH D5jcd/HQI6BchFEQhd/isV+oCQpWNGL8g0tUcvIBnPfzM0SWJ+UWickfDQRe1Of0 TXk2x3YWZ9q+ZfbELEHo43wiO6IwhW+RyCUjwaUqMkSwzP9X2Nc9JoRVUmSwmbXD 77hnogDpZK4= =x+NL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
