Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 16:27 -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > >> I think we should up-level this and extend to the community for comments. >> The proposal, as I see it, is to create a simple, >> > yes > > >> contiguous (?) >> > as I understand the proposal, not necessarily contiguous. > Correct, not necessarily contiguous on disk. > >> space which sits in a zpool. As such, it does inherit the behaviour of the >> zpool. But it does not inherit the behaviour of a file system or zvol >> (no snapshots, copies, etc.) >> >> While the original reason for this was swap, I have a sneaky suspicion >> that others may wish for this as well, or perhaps something else. >> Thoughts? (database folks, jump in :-) >> > > the record will hopefully show that I predicted that the database folks > would want to use this when Lori described the concept during ARC > review... > > > Yes, you did. That was my first thought when I saw these mails, that you had predicted this.
Since there seems to be a broader interest in this, I'm going to ask Eric Taylor, who's designing and implementing this feature, to send out mail describing it more detail, since he knows a lot more about it than I do. Lori _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
