On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Adam Leventhal <a...@eng.sun.com> wrote:
> > And again, I say take a look at the market today, figure out a > percentage, > > and call it done. I don't think you'll find a lot of users crying foul > over > > losing 1% of their drive space when they don't already cry foul over the > > false advertising that is drive sizes today. > > Perhaps it's quaint, but 5GB still seems like a lot to me to throw away. That wasn't a hard number, that was a hypothetical number. On 750GB drives I'm only seeing them lose in the area of 300-500MB. > > > I have two disks in one of my systems... both maxtor 500GB drives, > purchased > > at the same time shortly after the buyout. One is a rebadged Seagate, > one > > is a true, made in China Maxtor. Different block numbers... same model > > drive, purchased at the same time. > > > > Wasn't zfs supposed to be about using software to make up for > deficiencies > > in hardware? It would seem this request is exactly that... > > That's a fair point, and I do encourage you to file an RFE, but a) Sun has > already solved this problem in a different way as a company with our > products > and b) users already have the ability to right-size drives. > > Perhaps a better solution would be to handle the procedure of replacing a > disk > with a slightly smaller one by migrating data and then treating the extant > disks as slightly smaller as well. This would have the advantage of being > far > more dynamic and of only applying the space tax in situations where it > actually > applies. > A) Should have a big bright * next to it referencing "our packaged storage solutions". I've got plenty of 72G "Sun" drives still lying around that aren't all identical block numbers ;) Yes, an RMA is great, but when I've got spares sitting on the shelf and I lose a drive at 4:40pm on a Friday, I'm going to stick the spare off the shelf in, call Sun, and put the replacement back on the shelf on Monday. /horse beaten B) I think we can both agree that having to pre-slice every disk that goes into the system is not a viable long-term solution to this issue. That being said, your conclusion sounds like a perfectly acceptable/good idea to me for all of the technical people such as those on this list. Joe User is another story, but much like adding a single drive to a raid-z(2) vdev, I doubt that's a target market for Sun at this time.
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