On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 16:27 -0700, Richard Elling wrote:
> I think we should up-level this and extend to the community for comments.
> The proposal, as I see it, is to create a simple,
yes
> contiguous (?)
as I understand the proposal, not necessarily contiguous.
> space which sits in a zpool. As such, it does inherit the behaviour of the
> zpool. But it does not inherit the behaviour of a file system or zvol
> (no snapshots, copies, etc.)
>
> While the original reason for this was swap, I have a sneaky suspicion
> that others may wish for this as well, or perhaps something else.
> Thoughts? (database folks, jump in :-)
the record will hopefully show that I predicted that the database folks
would want to use this when Lori described the concept during ARC
review...
- Bill
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