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Formula for determining max zfs volume size in zpool

edited Jun 15, 2012 3:15AM in Oracle Solaris File Systems and Disk Management (MOSC) 3 commentsAnswered
If I have a zpool of size N GB, and I want to create a zfs volume in that pool,what is the formula that I should use for the maximum guaranteed  size of the zfs volume
based on the size of the zpool?

Several years ago I had a 136 GB zpool, and created a 133 GB zfs volume
for use as a device for SAM-FS.  At some point my SAM-FS filesystem failed
on a write because the zfs did not really hae 133 GB of "usable space" in the volume.
On Sun's recommendation I reduced the size of the volume to 120 GB, but I don't

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