On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 01:27:21AM -0700, Jeff Bonwick wrote: > > Of course the re-writing must be 100% safe, but that can be done with COW > > quite easily. > > the ability to remap blocks would be *so* useful -- it would > enable compression of preexisting data, removing devices from > a pool, automatically moving cold data to slower devices, etc.
Being able to remove devices from a pool would be a good thing. I can't personally think of any reason that I would ever do it, but a friend of mine keeps asking me why it can't do it and that it should be able to. -brian _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
