Hello Richard, Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 6:23:05 PM, you wrote:
RE> Robert Milkowski wrote: RE> Wouldn't that fall under the generic rewrite/shrink functionality we're also RE> anxiously waiting for? Note that this also brings up a nasty edge case where RE> the rewrite may cause you to run out of space. RE> -- richard Yes, we're waiting for this :) In most cases rewrite/shrink should inform admin if given operation is possible in case of free space. However it won't be probably possible with ditto block for data block without actually scanning entire pool... I guess that in such a case two options should be provided. 1) just to go ahead and we will see what happens. 2) first scan entire pool and give the answer. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss