I see the use case for these "logical" quotas (variants on userquota@,
quota, refquota).  FYI, I added the "logicalused" and "logicalreferenced"
properties a few years back, and these can be used to implement
application-level checks/quotas.  If we implement a "logicalquota" and
"logicalrefquota", those could be based on the "logicalused" and
"logicalreferenced" properties, respectively.

--matt

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Jorgen Lundman <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 



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