Don't feel too bad...space reservations takes time to digest.
Space reservations don't affect your ability to mount snapshots. Doing fractional reserves is one way to handle snapshots on LUN volumes. Doing so carries some risk in that the volume can run out of space before the LUN does. But if you know your change rate, you can use fractional reserve if it fits your needs.
Another method you will find customers on 7.1 and later using is to not use space reservations at all, leaving a reasonable amount of free space in the volume, then setting up policies for autogrow and/or auto snapshot delete in case you run over.
-- Adam Fox NGS Tools Developer adamfox@netapp.com
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From: owner-dl-toasters@jhereg.corp.netapp.com [mailto:owner-dl-toasters@jhereg.corp.netapp.com] On Behalf Of Steven Mandrake Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:16 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: mounting snapshots
Hello,
I am having the hardest time understanding fractional space reservations for volumes and lun space reservations.
If I reduce fractional space reservations to a volume that contain luns, what happens to lun space reservations? Is there a way to throttle lun space reservations -- as far as I can tell it's just a check box in Filerview....
The main question I have is --- does setting fractional space reservation affect my ability to mount snapshots. I assume that mounting snapshots does not take any space since it's all read-only.... or am i wrong in assuming this?
My assumption right now is that fractional space reserve is there if I ever need to mount a snapshot to be read/write --- am I dead wrong?
Thanks, Steve