Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Clarification on ZFS quota property.

2006-12-13 Thread Darren Dunham
> This is probably an attempt to 'short-stroke' a larger disk with the > intention utilising only a small ammount of the disk surface, as a > technique it used to be quite common for certain apps (notably DBs). > Hence you saw deployments of quite large disks but with perhaps only > 1/4-1/2

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Clarification on ZFS quota property.

2006-12-13 Thread Craig Morgan
This is probably an attempt to 'short-stroke' a larger disk with the intention utilising only a small ammount of the disk surface, as a technique it used to be quite common for certain apps (notably DBs). Hence you saw deployments of quite large disks but with perhaps only 1/4-1/2 physical

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Clarification on ZFS quota property.

2006-12-13 Thread Darren Dunham
> $mkfs -F vxfs -o bsize=1024 /dev/rdsk/c5t20d9s2 2048000 > > The above command creates vxfs file system on first 2048000 blocks (each > block size is 1024 bytes) of /dev/rdsk/c5t20d9s2 . > > Like this is there a option to limit the size of ZFS file system.? if > so what it is ? how it i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Clarification on ZFS quota property.

2006-12-13 Thread dudekula mastan
Hi Darren Thanks for your reply. You please take a deep look into the following command: $mkfs -F vxfs -o bsize=1024 /dev/rdsk/c5t20d9s2 2048000 The above command creates vxfs file system on first 2048000 blocks (each block size is 1024 bytes) of /dev/rdsk/c5t20d9s2 .

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Clarification on ZFS quota property.

2006-12-12 Thread Darren Dunham
> Hi All, > > Assume the device c0t0d0 size is 10 KB. > I created ZFS file system on this > $ zpool create -f mypool c0t0d0s2 This creates a pool on the entire slice. > and to limit the size of ZFS file system I used quota property. > > $ zfs set quota = 5000K mypool Note

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need Clarification on ZFS quota property.

2006-12-12 Thread Tomas Ă–gren
On 12 December, 2006 - dudekula mastan sent me these 2,7K bytes: > > Hi All, > > Assume the device c0t0d0 size is 10 KB. > > I created ZFS file system on this > > $ zpool create -f mypool c0t0d0s2 > > and to limit the size of ZFS file system I used quota property. >

[zfs-discuss] Need Clarification on ZFS quota property.

2006-12-12 Thread dudekula mastan
Hi All, Assume the device c0t0d0 size is 10 KB. I created ZFS file system on this $ zpool create -f mypool c0t0d0s2 and to limit the size of ZFS file system I used quota property. $ zfs set quota = 5000K mypool Which 5000 K bytes are belongs (or reserved) t