> On Nov 4, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Ben RUBSON <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 04 Nov 2016, at 19:24, Richard Elling <[email protected] >> <mailto:[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.
refquota is quota that doesn’t count unique snapshot data. How do you propose this work for dedup? > >> 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… The problem, as you’ve discovered, is that technology advances faster than silly business rules for dealing with charges. In other words, John Legere is my hero :-) — richard ------------------------------------------- openzfs-developer Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/274414/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/274414/28015062-cce53afa Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=28015062&id_secret=28015062-f966d51c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
