I was talking with some customers today and came up with several questions that I don't know the answers to. I'll post these as separate threads so as not to muddy things up too much.

It seems like ZFS has a lot more knowledge of what is going on all the way down to the disk level than other FS. That gives a great opportunity to have some sort of QoS or bandwidth management. Is there a plan for this underway? The idea we came up with was that particular fs within a pool would have essentially shares (like in FSS) of the bandwidth to the disks in the pool promised to them. This customer has a lot of big batch jobs running on their system. They would like to promise that the largest one, which writes very infrequently but needs a *lot* of bandwidth when it does, gets a big share of the total when it needs it.

Does this make sense?

--SCott
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