I believe this was one of my questions at my first ZFS Summit day :)
The space saved from compression should be to our advantage, not that of the customers (who should really compress their data anyway, right?) which is how Google does its drive space etc.
But since OpenZFS can not currently do this, we have lived with compression-favours-the-customers.
This came to an amusing issue with the last maintenance, where we moved customers from existing (compressed ZFS storage) to new hardware, and "someone" forgot to set compression. (Solaris copies the compression property with zfs recv -o, but IllumOS does not).
Suddenly a couple of hundred customers could no longer receive mail, as they'd managed to tweak their mail storage just under the quota limit compressed, which now went far beyond their quota, uncompressed.
I'm sure I put everyone to sleep with that anecdote. lt, dr; We too want (alternate?) quotas based on pre-compressed sized :) Lund ------------------------------------------- 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
