Re: [zfs-discuss] Thin devices/reclamation with ZFS?

2010-11-12 Thread Lars Albnisson
Hi Henrik Yes I have the following concerns….. and as I haven’t done any practical tests this is only “in theory”…. 1. Reclaiming thin devices will not work, EMC have a 768K byte minimum reclaim limit (768Kbytes needs to be all zeros). And HDS have 42MB I believe, IBM and 3PAR I don’t

[zfs-discuss] Thin devices/reclamation with ZFS?

2010-10-25 Thread Henrik Johansson
Hello, Does anyone here have experience or thoughts regarding the use of ZFS on thin devices? Since ZFS is COW it will not play nicly with this feature, it will spread it's blocks all over the space it has been given, and it has curently no way to get back in contact with the storage arrays