Re: Thin provisioning & arrays

Dave Chinner
2008-11-11T23:09:27Z

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:55:59AM -0500, jim owens wrote:
> Ric Wheeler wrote:
>> Thing is being pitched to answer a very specific customer use case -
>> shared storage (mid to high end almost exclusively) with several
>> different users and applications....
...
> It is up to the customer to manage their storage so it never
> reaches the unable-to-write state.

Sure, but putting the entire management burden of obtaining and
running defrag tools in every one of their large set of OS's is the
wrong approach.

We can and should be designing new functionality for the data center
in such a manner that does not require large scale manual
intervention to maintain the systems. Your customers won't thank you
for solving the thin provisioning management problem by requiring
them to do extra hand-holding....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com