> Over coffee with a colleague (cc'd) we were talking > about the problem of > taking advantage of ZFS over NFS (or CIFS) from a non > Solaris machine. > > We already have the .zfs/snapshot dir and this is > great. One of the > other areas was knowing the settings on your data set > are. So enter > .zfs/info which would be an ascii representation of > the information from > `zfs get all`. > > I can see some problems with this, and it reminds me > a little too much > of what happened to /proc on Linux and so a bit > uncomfortable about > suggesting. >
Since sharing ZFS data over NFS, the one bit of info I'd really like to see from the NFS shares would be more accurate guesstimates of disk space used and available. Perhaps adding some time-stamped (hourly? daily?) disk space usage statistics file or directory would be more useful to a majority of clients. Of course, due to performance considerations, this should be a user selectable option. Perhaps automatically enabled if/when quotas are used? The overall ZFS settings should be available to any administrators anyway, and I'm uncertain as to the necessity of having this information also shared by default via NFS. Either way, it seems both ideas could be implemented by scripts if necessary, but the inclusion of such data should make life easier. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
