On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Richard Elling wrote: >> [donning my managerial accounting hat] >> It is not a good idea to design systems based upon someone's managerial >> accounting whims. These are subject to change in illogical ways at >> unpredictable intervals. This is why managerial accounting can be so > > Managerial accounting whims can be put to good use. If there is > desire to reduce the amout of disk space consumed, then the accounting > whims should make sure that those who consume the disk space get to > pay for it. Apparently this is not currently the case or else there > would not be so much blatant waste. On the flip-side, the approach > which results in so much blatant waste may be extremely profitable so > the waste does not really matter.
The existence of the waste paves the way for new products to come in and offer competitive advantage over in-place solutions. When companies aren't buying anything due to budget constraints, the only way to make sales is to show businesses that by buying something they will save money - and quickly. > Imagine if university students were allowed to use as much space as > they wanted but had to pay a per megabyte charge every two weeks or > their account is terminated? This would surely result in huge > reduction in disk space consumption. If you can offer the perception of more storage because of efficiencies of the storage devices make it the same cost as less storage, then perhaps allocating more per student is feasible. Or maybe tuition could drop by a few bucks. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
