Chris Siebenmann wrote: > Every university department has to face the issue of how to allocate > disk space to people. Here, we handle storage allocation decisions > through the relatively simple method of selling fixed-size chunks of > storage to faculty (either single professors or groups of them) for a > small one-time fee.
I would expect all sorts of organizations would want to allocate space to their customers as a concatenation of "reasonable sized" chunks, where the definition of reasonable would vary in size depending on the business. I was recently in a similar discussion about how best to do this allocation on a 9990v, so I expect it's not peculiar to the UofT (:-)) --dave (about 6 miles north of Chris) c-b -- David Collier-Brown | Always do right. This will gratify Sun Microsystems, Toronto | some people and astonish the rest [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Mark Twain (905) 943-1983, cell: (647) 833-9377, (800) 555-9786 x56583, bridge: (877) 385-4099 code: 506 9191# _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
