Re: Shrinking a ZFS aggregate

2012-07-05 Thread Jake anderson
Dear sir, Ioefsprm parmlib member ? Looking at aggrow keyword, but not sure if it addresses your need. Apology if my assumption is wrong. On Jul 5, 2012 5:20 PM, Don Imbriale don.imbri...@gmail.com wrote: So John is back to useless posts that do more to attack than to provide substance. Your

Re: Shrinking a ZFS aggregate

2012-07-05 Thread McKown, John
What is needed is for IBM to write a zfsresize command. This command would reorganize the internals of a zfs, compacting the used portions towards the front of the dataset, adjusting the internal pointers, and marking some portion (based on the user's input) as unusable. Once the UNIX people

Re: Shrinking a ZFS aggregate

2012-07-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 08:50:25 -0500, McKown, John wrote: What is needed is for IBM to write a zfsresize command. This command would reorganize the internals of a zfs, compacting the used portions towards the front of the dataset, adjusting the internal pointers, and marking some portion (based

Re: Shrinking a ZFS aggregate

2012-07-05 Thread Aled Hughes
day? ALH -Original Message- From: Don Imbriale don.imbri...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 12:49 Subject: Re: Shrinking a ZFS aggregate So John is back to useless posts that do more to attack than to provide ubstance. Your earlier departure

Shrinking a ZFS aggregate

2012-07-04 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi, I have a ZFS aggregate that I would like to shrink. IS there a way to do this, and tell it the final size I want it to be? Thanks Gadi לשימת לבך, בהתאם לנהלי החברה וזכויות החתימה בה, כל הצעה, התחייבות או מצג מטעם החברה, מחייבים מסמך נפרד וחתום על ידי מורשי

Re: Shrinking a ZFS aggregate

2012-07-04 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi As far as I know, no way to shrink, only reallocate copy/clone On 04.07.2012 09:00, גדי בן אבי wrote: Hi, I have a ZFS aggregate that I would like to shrink. IS there a way to do this, and tell it the final size I want it to be? Thanks Gadi לשימת

Re: Shrinking a ZFS aggregate

2012-07-04 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 10:00:44 +0300, GADI wrote: I have a ZFS aggregate that I would like to shrink. IS there a way to do this, and tell it the final size I want it to be? ROTFLMAO ... C'mon Gadi, where's the business case. IBM want you to buy more not less. It should be noted that the

Re: Shrinking a ZFS aggregate

2012-07-04 Thread John Gilmore
In addition to the business case, there is a compelling design case that can be made briefly. If something can be made bigger a symmetric facility that makes it smaller must also be provided More generally, Garden-of-Eden states, those that once left cannot be returned to, are always ugly and

Re: Shrinking a ZFS aggregate

2012-07-04 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 16:34:43 -0400, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: In addition to the business case, there is a compelling design case that can be made briefly. If something can be made bigger a symmetric facility that makes it smaller must also be provided More generally, Garden-of-Eden

Re: Shrinking a ZFS aggregate

2012-07-04 Thread John Gilmore
Mark, I am aware that you have done very useful work, and I will therefore be polite. I am a nevertheless more than a little tired of this nonsense. I have been in this business since 1949. That's 63 years. How long have you been in this business? You would presumably agree with milder