So the place we are arriving is to push the RFE for shrinkable pools? Warning the user about the difference in actual drive size, then offering to shrink the pool to allow a smaller device seems like a nice solution to this problem.
The ability to shrink pools might be very useful in other situations. Say I built server that once did a decent amount of iops using SATA disks, and now that the workloads iops is greatly increased (busy database?), I need SAS disks. If I'd originally bought 500gb SATA (current sweet spot) disks, I might have a lot of empty space in my pool. Shrinking the pool would allow me to migrate to smaller (capacity) SAS disks with much better seek times, without being forced to buy 2x as many disks due to the higher cost/gb of SAS. I think I remember an RFE for shrinkable pools, but can't find it - can someone post a link if they know where it is? cheers, Blake _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
