On 9/21/07, Christine Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > patch and install tools can't figure out pools yet. If you have a 1GB > pool and 10 filesystems on it, du reports each having 1GB, do you have > 10GB capacity? The tools can't tell. Please check the archives, this > subject has been extensively discussed.
Two responses come immediately to mind... 1) Thanks for protecting stupid/careless people from doing bad things. 2) UNIX has a longstanding tradition of adding a -f flag for cases when the sysadmin realizes there is additional risk but feels that appropriate precautions have been taken. I would really like to ask Sun for a roadmap as to when this is going to be supported. Since this is the zfs list (not zones or install list) and it is OpenSolaris (not Solaris) I guess I should probably find a more appropriate forum. So, for now I will use OpenSolaris where I can and wait patiently for the new installer + snap upgrade basket and wait for it to find its way into Solaris in about a year or two. In the meantime, I'll probably end up putting most zones on a particular competitor's NAS devices and looking into how well their file system cloning capabilities play in coordination with iSCSI. <irony> Oh, wait! What if the NAS device runs out of space while I'm patching? Better rule out the thin provisioning capabilities of the HDS storage that Sun sells as well. </irony> -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
