Hello there. I do agree, in a small environment you normaly do not need to shrink.
One reason to shrink is between keyboard and chair. You just add the wrong disk. 1 TB instead of 100 GB. What do you do? Ask the SAN team to provide space for a second pool of 15 TB to copy it all over into a temporary pool, create the right pool on the right disks and copy back? All inside you downtime of 1 hour? Clear NOGO! Another reason is storage consolidation. The customer was using 15 TB until now He was able to reduce to 5 TB and is not willing to pay for the unused 10 TB. Sure you can tell him this is a downtime if 10 hours. If you want to loose the customer...... About UFS: The missing ability to shrink is the reason for using VxFS in all big environments. I would say: No 'home user' needs shrink. Every professional datacenter needs shrink. So for me at home ZFS is OK, for my datacenter customers it's still VxVM with VxFS. With all its withdraws. Mit vielen Gruessen, Ralf Gans This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
