> On 04 Nov 2016, at 19:24, Richard Elling <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Nov 4, 2016, at 11:19 AM, Ben RUBSON <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 04 Nov 2016, at 19:13, Richard Elling <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 4, 2016, at 11:11 AM, MrRakeshsank . <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> any one has any ideas on it? Thanks!
>>> 
>>> Why would you want a "logical size" quota as opposed to the currently 
>>> implemented
>>> "allocation size" quota?
>> 
>> I admit I would be interested in this feature too : a user needs 10GB,
>> you give him 10GB through a "logical" quota,
>> and as a storage admin you enable compression to better handle your storage,
>> being able to address more users, then reducing costs.
>> Interesting :)
> 
> indeed :-)
> 
> But while this simple example might work for a compression-only environment, 
> its core
> concepts are utterly destroyed snapshots, clones, and dedup are used.

We could have a userquota based on logical size, a sort of new 
"userlogicalquota".
As userquota do not include snapshots etc... I think it should be something 
possible.

> A better idea is to bill for logical size, constrain with allocation size.

Yes.
I also have some users who need an allocation hard limit, so I have to disable 
compression for them,
in order to avoid billing surprises...




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