[zfs-discuss] [Fwd: File system size reduction]

Vikas Kakkar Vikas.Kakkar at Sun.COM
Wed Aug 27 03:08:27 PDT 2008


Thanks for your email Sanjeev!!

Actually customer wants to reduce the pool size, I guess we cannot do 
this today....there is a pending RFP on this.

Would you know if ZFS is supported for Sun Cluster?

Regards
Vikas






Sanjeev wrote:
> Vikas,
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:29:49PM +0530, Vikas Kakkar wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please help answering the following queries:
>>
>> 1. Can we reduce the size of a file system if we use ZFS?
>>     
>
> The size of the filesystem is dynamic. ie. it depends on the size of the pool.
> The only way to limit the size of the filesystem is by applying quota on it.
> And quota can be dynamically increased/decreased.
>
> NOTE : Ofcourse we cannot reduce the quota to anything lesser than what the
> filesystem is already consuming.
>
>   
>> 2. Can we use ZFS is the storage array is EMC DMX-4?
>>     
>
> Not sure about the specifics. But, as long as the box can publish its
> LUNs as disks on a host it should work.
>
> Regards,
> Sanjeev.
>   
>> Thanks in Advance.
>>
>> Regards
>> Vikas
>>
>>
>>
>>
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