On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > I’ve also heard that the risk for unexpected failure of your pool is higher > if/when you reach 100% capacity. I’ve heard that you should always create a > small ZFS filesystem within a pool, and give it some reserved space, along > with the filesystem that you actually plan to use in your pool. Anyone care > to offer any comments on that?
Define "failure" in this context? I am not aware of a data loss failure when near full. However, all file systems will experience performance degradation for write operations as they become full. -- richard ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance Las Vegas, April 29-30, 2010 http://nexenta-vegas.eventbrite.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
