> From: Richard Elling > Sent: Monday, November 07, 2016 1:33 PM > > No, this is a lie. If I upload 50GB of data that compresses or dedups to 25GB, > then I want to pay for 25GB.
That is an interesting perspective. So let's say you upload 1TB of data. It dedups to 100GB, and for a year you pay for 100GB, and that's what your company has budgeted. Suddenly, completely unrelated other companies go out of business and delete all of their data, their copies disappear, leaving only yours, and out of the blue you are suddenly charged for 1TB of data a month? That would be a bit of a surprise for the accounting department. I dunno. I just don't think I can get on board. The service provider is clearly advertising "I can store this much stuff for you for this much money". You gave them that much stuff. They stored it. I'm not seeing the lie. If they are really efficient in storing it, good for them. You could have always packed it better yourself if you wanted them to store more of it. If some other service provider sees a market advantage in selling "compressed storage", more power to them, but calling the ones that don't liars and cheaters? That doesn't seem right. ------------------------------------------- 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
