> 
> I don't know... while it will work I'm not sure I would trust it.
> Maybe just use Solaris Volume Manager with Soft Partitioning + UFS and
> forget about ZFS in your case?

Well, the idea was to see if it could replace the existing NetApps as 
that was what Jonathan promised it could do, and we do use snapshots on 
the NetApps, so having zfs snapshots would be attractive, as well as 
easy to grow the file-system as needed. (Although, perhaps I can growfs 
with SVM as well.)


You may be correct about the trust issue though. copied over a small 
volume from the netapp:

Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
                        1.0T   8.7G  1005G     1%    /export/vol1

NAME                    SIZE    USED   AVAIL    CAP  HEALTH ALTROOT
zpool1                 20.8T   5.00G   20.8T     0%  ONLINE     -

So copied 8.7Gb, to compressed volume takes up 5Gb. That is quite nice. 
Enable the same quotas for users, then run quotacheck:

[snip]
#282759    fixed:  files 0 -> 4939  blocks 0 -> 95888
#282859    fixed:  files 0 -> 9  blocks 0 -> 144
Read from remote host x4500-test: Operation timed out
Connection to x4500-test closed.

and it has not come back, so not a panic, just a complete hang. I'll 
have to get NOC staff to go power cycle it.


We are bending over backwards trying to get the x4500 to work in a 
simple NAS design, but honestly, the x4500 is not a NAS. Nor can it 
compete with NetApps. As a Unix server with lots of disks, it is very nice.

Perhaps one day it can mind you, it just is not there today.



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