On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:35:54AM -0600, Al Hopper wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, SteveW wrote: > > ... reformatted ... > > The ability to shrink a pool by removing devices is the only reason my > > enterprise is not yet using ZFS, simply because it prevents us from > > easily migrating storage. > > That logic is totally bogus AFAIC. There are so many advantages to > running ZFS that denying yourself that opportunity is very short sighted - > especially when there are lots of ways of working around this minor > feature deficiency.
The other point is, how many other volume management systems allow you to remove disks? I bet if the answer is not zero, it's not large. ;) -brian -- "The reason I don't use Gnome: every single other window manager I know of is very powerfully extensible, where you can switch actions to different mouse buttons. Guess which one is not, because it might confuse the poor users? Here's a hint: it's not the small and fast one." --Linus _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
