John wrote: > Our "enterprise" is about 300TB.. maybe a bit more... > > You are correct that most of the time we grow and not shrink... however, we > are fairly dynamic and occasionally do shrink. DBA's have been known to be > off on their space requirements/requests. > > For the record I agree with you and I'm wating for this feature also. I was only citing my recolection of the explanatin given in the past.
To add more from my memory, I think the 'Enterprise grows not shrinks' idea is coming from the idea that in ZFS you should be creating fewer data pools from a few different specific sized LUNs, and using ZFS to allocate filesystems and zVOL's from the pool, instead of customizing LUN sizes to create more pools each for different purposes. If true, (if you can make all your LUNs one size, and make a few [prefferably one I think] data zPool per server host.) then the need to reduce pool size is diminished. That's not realistic in the home/hobby/developer market, and I'm not convinced that's realistic in the enterprise either. > There is also the human error factor. If someone accidentally grows a zpool > there is no easy way to recover that space without down time. Some of my > LUNs are in the 1TB range and if that gets added to the wrong zpool that > space is basically stuck there until i can get a maintenance window. And then > I'm not that's even possible since my windows are only 3 hours... for example > what if I add a LUN to 20TB zpool. What would I do to remove the LUN? I > think I would have to create a new 20TB pool and move the data from the > original to the new zpool... so that would assume I have a free 20TB and the > down time.... > > I agree here also, even with a single zpool per server. Consider a policy where when the pool grows you always add a RAIDz2 of 10 200GB LUNs. So your single data pool is currently 3 of these RAIDz2 vdevs, and an admin goes to add 10 more, but forgets the 'raidz2, so you end up with 3 RAIDz2, and 10 single LUN non redundant vdevs. How do you fix that? My suggestion still remains though. Log your enterprises wish for this feature through as many channels as you have into Sun. This list, Sales, Support, every way you can think of. Get it documented, so that when they go to set priorities on RFE's there'll be more data on this one. -Kyle > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
