Thin Provisioning in ZFS

Ah, Ben understands and did a great demonstration of thin provisioning (also read Dave’s Blog) with ZFS using sparse volumes (zvols).

HUGE.

The ability to thin provision storage is a very “enterprise” feature that one can know get from free when using ZFS+Opensolaris.

When combined with ethernet-based storage networks (iSCSI), it’s unstoppable.

Ben’s also a Joyeur now.

Welcome to the Family, Ben.

This entry was written by jason and posted on August 29, 2006 at 1:07 am and filed under Infrastructure. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

3 Comments

  1. Wes Felter
    Posted August 29, 2006 at 7:11 pm | Permalink

    I can understand overcommitting storage in a filesystem; writes will just return -ENOSPC when the fs is full. But when the pool backing your sparse zvol fills up, what happens?

  2. David Comay
    Posted September 1, 2006 at 6:30 am | Permalink

    Great to hear that Ben is joining you folks, Jason. It will be great to see what such creative and passionate people will bring to the table.

  3. Jason Hoffman
    Posted September 1, 2006 at 6:39 am | Permalink

    Thanks David!


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